Hi All, I thought I would try and help Erich & Ubuntu Studio by taking a look at Calf yesterday.
On 08/13/2018 12:54 AM, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi James! > On 8/12/2018 3:08 PM, James Cowgill wrote: >> Hi Erich, >> On 12/08/18 22:31, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: >>> My name is Erich Eickmeyer. I am the current council chair for Ubuntu >>> Studio, and my presence has been requested to join the Debian Multimedia >>> Team by Simon Quigley. [snip] >>> I have created a debdiff to update the Calf plugins included in both >>> Debian and Ubuntu, which would be a bugfix for both distributions. It >>> updates the package to 0.90.1, and can be found here: >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/calf/+bug/1769785 >> Since you've written it in the bug, you probably know that all >> multimedia team packages are maintained in git on salsa. This means any >> changes need to be in the form of a git branch based on the existing >> work on salsa. [snip] I have applied Erich's debdiff on top of our salsa git repo. Unfortunately, it seems a bit of a mix of CDBS and debhelper packaging at the moment. But it sort of works. > Yeah, the .1 release, which I have discussed with the upstream > developer, contains fixes to bugs which would cause the plugins to crash > Ardour. Another problem that was causing Ardour to crash is the old, > abandoned, and deprecated calf-ladspa package (deprecated per upstream). > The problem mostly happens when the two are installed at the same time, > so I made the package such that the two cannot be installed at the same > time at the author's request. [snip] >> This thread was the last thing mentioning calf packaging: >> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-multimedia-maintainers/2017-November/061765.html >> >> Jonas said he was going to look at it. I wonder if that has materialized? Jonas, I am close to having a tidy package using debhelper. Before I finish it, and push the changes, I would like to check how attached to Calf you are. I can drop you from Uploaders if you prefer and add myself (and hopefully Erich later, once he gets the hang of working in Debian). Regards, Ross
