Package: snd
Version: 6.10-4
Severity: important
Hello :) The Debian ALSA packaging team will shortly be uploading a new
version of libasound, which unfortunately includes a source-level
incompatibility introduced by upstream. We don't feel it's appropriate
to differ from other distributions in this respect, and the number of
affected packages is small, so we are instead pre-emptively filing a few
bugs here and there.
What it boils down to is that the snd_set_hw_params API (maybe some
others too) were changed some time ago, but without #defining a variable
indicating that the new API was to be used, the old API was default.
With the latest upstream release, this behaviour is reversed - in order
to use your current API calling methods, you need to add these defines
before you include (or any other header which prototypes
those functions):
#define ALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API
#define ALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API
Attached is the log of the build failure for the package you maintain.
Thanks very much :) We'll be uploading the new libasound within a week
or two, but rest assured that if you upload an updated package
beforehand, it will work with the current version of libasound in
unstable.
(Note that for maximum compatibility, using the old API and adding the
defines is preferrable to switching to using the new API.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux willow 2.6.1-a3 #3 Tue Jan 20 23:22:44 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA
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