Debian Bug report logs - #249157
audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 14:27:00 +0100

Package: audacity
Version: 1.2.0-3
Severity: normal

Recording functionality and particularly duplex support is extremely
limited in Audacity when using OSS.

There is a compile-time option to support ALSA through portaudio-v19
and this should be enabled in the Debian package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB

Versions of packages audacity depends on:
ii  libc6             2.3.2.ds1-12           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1           1:3.3.3-6              GCC support library
ii  libid3tag0        0.15.0b-3.1            ID3 tag reading library from the M
ii  libmad0           0.15.0b-3              MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libogg0           1.1.0-1                Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libsndfile1       1.0.8-1                Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++5        1:3.3.3-6              The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvorbis0a       1.0.1+gt3b2+20031215-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2     1.0.1+gt3b2+20031215-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3    1.0.1+gt3b2+20031215-1 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwxgtk2.4       2.4.2.4                wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI t

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Message #10 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>

To: 249157@bugs.debian.org

Cc: BTS Control Server <control@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#249157: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 07:12:45 -0700 (PDT)

severity 249157 wishlist
tags 249157 wontfix
thanks

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> There is a compile-time option to support ALSA through portaudio-v19
> and this should be enabled in the Debian package.

Unfortunately, compiling with portaudio-v19 enabled would break things
for many users.  Audacity's portaudio-v19 support is experimental and
incomplete.  PortAudio v19 is only available as a development snapshot,
and at the moment it does not support all of Audacity's features.

Audacity will be built with portaudio-v19 enabled as soon as it is fully
supported in the upstream source.  (Upstream could use some development
help in this area, by the way.)

I will also look into providing a separate audacity-alsa binary package,
as an alternative to the stable portaudio-v18 package.  (I would welcome
a patch to provide this.)

> Recording functionality and particularly duplex support is extremely
> limited in Audacity when using OSS.

Can you elaborate on this?  Audacity should have no problems recording
in full duplex with most OSS drivers (or ALSA drivers and OSS emulation).

It's possible that the OSS drivers for your soundcard are limited, or
that bugs in the OSS emulation for your ALSA driver prevent it from
using some features.  Which driver(s) and soundcard(s) are you using,
and exactly what limitations have you found?

Message #19 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk>

To: Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>, 249157@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#249157: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 19:43:36 +0100

Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > There is a compile-time option to support ALSA through portaudio-v19
> > and this should be enabled in the Debian package.
> 
> Unfortunately, compiling with portaudio-v19 enabled would break things
> for many users.  Audacity's portaudio-v19 support is experimental and
> incomplete.  PortAudio v19 is only available as a development snapshot,
> and at the moment it does not support all of Audacity's features.

That's unfortunate - it seemed to work much better for me.  There was
a bug in duplex support under ALSA but that has since been fixed.

> Audacity will be built with portaudio-v19 enabled as soon as it is fully
> supported in the upstream source.  (Upstream could use some development
> help in this area, by the way.)

I can't spare the time right at the moment but I might be able to work
on it in a few months.

> I will also look into providing a separate audacity-alsa binary package,
> as an alternative to the stable portaudio-v18 package.  (I would welcome
> a patch to provide this.)

That might not be too hard.  I'll see if I can do that.

> > Recording functionality and particularly duplex support is extremely
> > limited in Audacity when using OSS.
> 
> Can you elaborate on this?  Audacity should have no problems recording
> in full duplex with most OSS drivers (or ALSA drivers and OSS emulation).
> 
> It's possible that the OSS drivers for your soundcard are limited, or
> that bugs in the OSS emulation for your ALSA driver prevent it from
> using some features.  Which driver(s) and soundcard(s) are you using,
> and exactly what limitations have you found?

I have been using ALSA with three different sound chips:

- on-board VIA 8233 (via82xx)
- Ensoniq AudioPCI (ens1371)
- some variant of SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1)

When using audacity 1.2.0-pre3 with either of the first two through
OSS emulation, duplex did not work (at any sample rate, if that
matters).  (Neither did it work through ALSA without some fiddling,
but I worked out that that was a bug in portaudio-v19 which had been
fixed but not merged into audacity.)

Having now re-tested the latter two with the Debian package of 1.2.0 I
find that duplex does work through OSS, so I guess there were two bugs
and both of them have been fixed and there isn't so much of a
difference in functionality.

I'm sorry to have wasted your time and I'll have a look at making a
patch to build a separate package.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.

Message #24 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>, 249157@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

Subject: Re: Re: Bug#249157: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 17:39:18 +0200

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 07:12:45AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> Unfortunately, compiling with portaudio-v19 enabled would break things
> for many users.  Audacity's portaudio-v19 support is experimental and
> incomplete.  PortAudio v19 is only available as a development snapshot,
> and at the moment it does not support all of Audacity's features.

Does that still hold? The statement is a year old.

> I will also look into providing a separate audacity-alsa binary package,
> as an alternative to the stable portaudio-v18 package.  (I would welcome
> a patch to provide this.)

Patching that in isn't easy because the package uses cdbs, which
doesn't seem to be geared towards building multiple binary packages
from the same source while configuring differently. You can see the
abiword package, for reference how to do this in a conventionally
built package.

> > Recording functionality and particularly duplex support is extremely
> > limited in Audacity when using OSS.
> 
> Can you elaborate on this?  Audacity should have no problems recording
> in full duplex with most OSS drivers (or ALSA drivers and OSS emulation).

Well, for example, recording from the digital input of my Zoltrix
Nightingale Pro 6 doesn't work at all without ALSA support compiled
into audacity.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #29 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: 249157@bugs.debian.org, 249157-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Bug#249157: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 19:57:01 +0200

> Well, for example, recording from the digital input of my Zoltrix
> Nightingale Pro 6 doesn't work at all without ALSA support compiled
> into audacity.

And, additionally, it looks like that the Debian package is
sufficiently broken so that it doesn't compile with
--with-portaudio=v19:

Type 'make' to build libresample and tests.
configure: configuring in lib-src/portaudio-v19
configure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr
'--build=i386-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--includedir=${prefix}/include'
'--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info'
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/audacity' '--srcdir=.'
'--disable-maintainer-mode' '--with-libsndfile=system'
'--with-vorbis=system' '--with-id3tag=system' '--with-libmad=system'
'--without-libflac' '--with-nyquist' '--with-portaudio=v19'
'--without-portmixer' 'CC=cc' 'CFLAGS=-g -Wall -O2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -Wall -O2' 'CXX=g++' 'build_alias=i386-linux' --cache-file=/dev/null --srcdir=.
configure: warning: CC=cc: invalid host type
configure: warning: CFLAGS=-g -Wall -O2: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a
time
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for lib-src/portaudio-v19
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
debuild: fatal error at line 765:
dpkg-buildpackage failed!

I would appreciate if that could be fixed so that we ALSA prisoners
can at least use a packaged, locally built audacity which is
sufficiently near to the Debian package.

Greetings
Marc


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Message #37 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>

To: 249157@bugs.debian.org, 249157-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#249157: Re: Re: Bug#249157: audacity: Should be built with ALSA support

Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 18:35:46 +0100

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 07:57:01PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> And, additionally, it looks like that the Debian package is
> sufficiently broken so that it doesn't compile with
> --with-portaudio=v19:

This can be worked around by running autoreconf in
lib-src/portaudio-v19. The ./configure script in there was created
with autoconf 2.13, which is obviously incompatible with the main
./configure script which was created with autoconf 2.59.

This way, one can at least build a local package with portaudio=v19
support.

Greetings
Marc

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Message #45 received at 249157@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Viktor Horvath <ViktorHorvath@gmx.net>

To: 249157@bugs.debian.org

Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:26:26 +0200

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Would be great if audacity could be built with portaudio-v19 by default,
when that's mature enough. Apparently, one gets nice JACK support by it
- that's what attracts me :-)

Best wishes,
Viktor.

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Message #50 received at 249157-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>

To: 249157-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#249157: fixed in audacity 1.3.2-1

Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:17:03 +0000

Source: audacity
Source-Version: 1.3.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
audacity, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

audacity_1.3.2-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/a/audacity/audacity_1.3.2-1.diff.gz
audacity_1.3.2-1.dsc
  to pool/main/a/audacity/audacity_1.3.2-1.dsc
audacity_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/a/audacity/audacity_1.3.2-1_amd64.deb
audacity_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/audacity/audacity_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 249157@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org> (supplier of updated audacity package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:53:30 +0100
Source: audacity
Binary: audacity
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.3.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Team <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org>
Description: 
 audacity   - A fast, cross-platform audio editor
Closes: 249157 298548 340409 379616
Changes: 
 audacity (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Michael Biebl ]
   * New upstream release for GTK2 and ALSA.
   * debian/control
     - Add build-dep on libexpat1-dev, libjack0.100.0-dev, libasound2-dev.
     - Build against libwxgtk2.6-dev. (Closes: #340409, #379616)
   * debian/rules
     - Enable portaudio v19 (ALSA). (Closes: #249157)
     - Enable unicode. (Closes: #298548)
     - Use system expat library.
   * Ship the desktop file provided by upstream, drop
     debian/audacity.desktop.
   * Use debhelper v5 compat mode.
   * Update FSF address in debian/copyright.
   * Update to Standards-Version 3.7.2, no further changes required.
 .
   [ Free Ekanayaka ]
   * Depend on libjack-dev rather that libjack0.100.0-dev, which is now
     obsolete
   * Set Maintainer to Debian Multimedia Team
   * Added Matt and myself to Uploaders
Files: 
 f4e7c3f631e2843ffe83d3cb43b4100f 882 sound optional audacity_1.3.2-1.dsc
 bf63673140254f1283dfd55b61ff2422 6683449 sound optional audacity_1.3.2.orig.tar.gz
 452b4ec305112459c5a344de10b40173 14736 sound optional audacity_1.3.2-1.diff.gz
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