[arch-general] jack-audio-connection-kit-mp vs celt/celt-07

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 04:27 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> On 28 July 2010 23:42, Thomas Bahn <Thomas-Bahn at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am the maintainer of jack-audio-connection-kit-mp.
> > I noticed your message in the comments of my package and started reproducing
> > this error.
> > I will investigate this and reply soon here.
> 
> CELT is used by jack{1,2} for audio relay over the internet, and it is
> _very_ experimental (API can change between minor revisions). If
> installed and waf detects a package "celt" on the system, regardless
> of the version, jackd will build with it. However, waf configure lists
> no option to disable celt, so it is an upstream problem.
> 
> jack2/jackmp depends on celt API version 0.5 OR 0.7, nothing lesser or
> greater. Even though it is a ">=" requirement, the build fails when
> 0.8 is installed, and so is an upstream issue once again. Version 0.8
> is "NOT bit-stream compatible" with previous versions; applications
> need to rebase their code if a rebuild is not enough.
> 
> Solution: celt-0.7 or no celt

Thanks Ray, so its just an upstream 'issue'. Perhaps the versioned deps
for jack/jackdmp should be updated to indicate that, Thomas?