EasyTag new version

[Jackson Doak]

Please ignore that. It seems eaytag has just been updated and is
currently in the debian NEW queue, it will be part of ubuntu 14.04 as
a result.

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Jackson Doak <noskcaj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>  You are probably contacting the wrong people. Ubuntu syncs this from
> debian, where the multimedia team maintain it. You shoulg contact them
> at pkg-multimedia-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org , and if you'd
> like to learn to package, they would probably be willing to help. The
> package itself is at http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/easytag.html
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Vasco <vascofalves at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there really no interest in doing anything about it? There aren't any
>> rdepends and it doesn't need anything that is not in saucy already to
>> work... I don't know anything about packaging, or I would put it into a ppa
>> myself, but as it is, I'm kind of stuck...
>>
>> Vasco
>>
>> On 06/10/13 15:39, Vasco wrote:
>>>
>>> There has been a new version of EasyTag out since February 2013. There is
>>> an outstanding bug in both Ubuntu and Debian (Ubuntu one here
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/easytag/+bug/1198450) about this,
>>> but no action has been taken on either side. Source found here
>>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/easytag/2.1/ .
>>>
>>> So, I finally bit the bullet and tried compiling it in saucy. It worked,
>>> after I applied a somewhat hackish patch to remove strict checking for
>>> declaration-after-statement errors (patch attached), and installed intltool,
>>> which is a new build-dep.  After that it compiled, and worked as far as I
>>> could tell.  I didn't perform extensive testing though.
>>>
>>> Of the patches in debian/patches, fix_segfault_loading_tags_from_txt.patch
>>> and fix-out-of-bound.patch have been applied upstream, taglib.patch is no
>>> longer needed as what it did was make EasyTag use taglib instead of
>>> libmp4v2. Upstream is now using taglib as well.
>>>
>>> So yeah, it works. Please upload it to the archive.
>>>
>>> Vasco
>>>
>>
>>
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