bug#52946: closed ([PATCH 0/2] Update Audacity to 3.1.3.)

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regarding [PATCH 0/2] Update Audacity to 3.1.3.
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> [PATCH 0/2] Update Audacity to 3.1.3.
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> Sun, 2 Jan 2022 10:42:52 +0100
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> This series updates wxwidgets-3.1 and thereafter audacity.  Both packages
> come with a series of adjustments to things changed in the build system
> in newer versions.
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> Particularly concerning is that audacity relies on linux-internal headers
> in order to do file magic.  Would it be feasible to patch their code so
> that it works in terms of the file package?
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> Cheers
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> Liliana Marie Prikler (2):
>   gnu: wxwidgets-3.1: Update to 3.1.5.
>   gnu: audacity: Update to 3.1.3
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>  gnu/local.mk                                  |  2 -
>  gnu/packages/audio.scm                        | 66 ++++++++++++-------
>  .../patches/audacity-add-include.patch        | 15 -----
>  ...audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch | 62 -----------------
>  gnu/packages/wxwidgets.scm                    | 29 ++++++--
>  5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/audacity-add-include.patch
>  delete mode 100644 
> gnu/packages/patches/audacity-build-with-system-portaudio.patch
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> Re: [bug#52946] [PATCH 0/2] Update Audacity to 3.1.3.
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> Am Dienstag, dem 04.01.2022 um 16:04 -0500 schrieb Leo Famulari:
> > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:43:37PM +0100, Liliana Marie Prikler
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> > > I'd like to avoid it if possible.  Audacity uses it to determine
> > > whether a particular file system is FAT so as to determine its
> > > limitations -- I'm sure there are better ways of doing that.
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> > I agree that it would be nice to avoid it. On the other hand, if
> > that's how Audacity made their program work, we should accept it
> > unless it causes serious problems. I don't think that feature
> > development of packaged programs should happen in the distro.
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> > I don't know what problems it could cause, just that it's unusual. A
> > few packages do refer directly to "kernel-headers" from the build
> > environment.
> Since it is just one header which is unlikely to change between kernel
> versions, I now pushed this as-is.  Thanks
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