Needs Packaging: Sonata 1.5

[Adam Lohr]

Please package this, if only for the sole reason of the switch to Genre instead of Album view for the library. I have 100some Techno artists that render the other views unusable. I've tried installing it myself, but it doesn't like being run from anywhere but the default install location as far as I can tell. (e.g. not local or home). The rest of the changelog for 1.5 follows:

    * Replace album view with genre view for library
    * Display covers for albums in artist/genre views
    * Add menu items and shortcuts for playing library items after add/replace
    * Allow setting artwork for streams
    * Optional stylized album art with cases (Aidan)
    * New, faster python mpd interface (jat)
    * --popup argument to popup song notification (requires D-Bus) (Oleg)
    * Show 'Untagged' artists/genres in their respective library views
    * Allow DND of cover art from a web browser (Артем)
    * Allow DND of music from a file manager into playlist (requires mpd 0.14)
    * Preserve column percentages for current tab across window resizing
    * Speed up mpd-related commandline arguments
    * Switch back to last tab on second cover art click
    * Retain selection in lists after removing items
    * Hidden config option to expand notebook tabs (tabs_expanded)
    * Set ServiceProxy cachedir for lyrics to work around ZSI bug
    * Add Estonian translation (Mihkel)
    * Bug: Fix multimedia keys for gnome 2.22
    * Bug: Fix artwork for artists/albums with "/" in them (e.g. AC/DC)
    * Bug: Fix egg trayicon with vertical system tray
    * Bug: Weird bug in library-view
    * Bug: Prevent failure to load if tab positions are saved as None
    * Bug: Fix non-ascii characters in files for non-utf8 filesystems (zap)
    * Bug: Prevent crash with certain locales like turkish (jat)
    * Bug: Using filter causes playlist to jump to the top
    * Bug: Fix AudioScrobblerQuery (kigurai)

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

This is not yet available in Intrepid, marking this as incomplete.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Now available in Intrepid.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

This package fails to build in a hardy pbuilder with :

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Build conflicts: libffi4-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package

[pableu (ps-pableu)]

By the way, you can easily install Sonata 1.5.2 in Hardy:

1. Download and install python-mpd (for intrepid) from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/python-mpd
2. Download and extract sonata-1.5.x.tar.bz2 from here: http://sonata.berlios.de/download.html
3a) Either start it directly (withouth installing) using "python sonata.py"
3b) or install it using "python setup.py install" (as root).

Installing also needs stuff like python-gtk-dev and python-dev and so on. Check the dependencies on the download-page..

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

I've managed to make it build in a Hardy pbuilder, by removing the Build-Conflicts line from debian/control. The debdiff is attached to this post. I will attach the build log shortly.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

Here's the build log.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Does the updated package install and run?

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 12:03 +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Does the updated package install and run?
>
> ** Changed in: hardy-backports
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>
Hmm I didn't test that. I've also lost the deb (though it can be
rebuilt) and no longer use Hardy. Can anyone else test?
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Chow Loong Jin