Please backport Audacious 1.5.1 and Audacious-Plugins 1.5.1 to Hardy

[Ari]

This fixes quite a few issues. Please backport to Hardy LTS.

Audacious-plugins 1.5.1 (2008-05-23)
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Enhancements
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* Some ModPlug playback engine fixes integrated from Schism Tracker.
* ModPlug archive support "works" now again, but only on local files.
* cdaudio-ng now has a rescan option.
* Various enhancements in Audacious-SID plugin synchronized from
  XMMS-SID.

Bugfixes
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* ModPlug starting to play from incorrect pattern order was fixed.
* Some unaligned access and other nasty bugs fixed in MADPlug.
* Code cleanups made in various plugins (not nearly enough, though.)
* Cleaned up and refactored configure and various buildsystem fixes.
* ProjectM compatibility fixes.
* demac plugin skips leading junk in APE files.
* Some sndfile plugin problems, including a filehandle leak, were fixed.
* Several crash fixes in the Neon HTTP/HTTPS transport plugin.

Audacious 1.5.1 was released on May 23rd, 2008. Please update the package.

Changelog:
Enhancements
* New Cairo-based playlist widget, which should be somewhat faster.
* Volume setting is now saved between sessions.
* Session management is now optional and can be disabled via a configure option.
* Added an option to enable loading of broken skins (use with care.)
* "Remote" handling of Audacious via commandline is now faster.

Bugfixes
* Headless support should work now again.
* Compiling without DBUS support works, but you should note that we DO NOT SUPPORT builds compiled without DBUS! Several features of Audacious are disabled if built without DBUS!
* Memory leak fixed in eggsm (session management).
* Documentation updates and fixes.
* GCC 4.3 compilation fixes.
* Fixed a crash when eggsm couldn't find audacious.desktop file.
* Cleaned up and refactored configure and various buildsystem fixes.
* Removed references to some options that are not available anymore.
* A Dbus-related crash when using remote playlist adding functions was fixed.
* Few potential lock-up situations have been fixed. * "Reload Plugins" button was removed, because it did not work properly and often caused segfaults due to broken plugins.

Source:
http://audacious-media-player.org/index.php?title=Downloads

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

In backports, confirmed means tested, so please don't set confirmed unless you've tested that it builds/installs/runs. Someone will need to test this before it can be done.

[Forest (foresto)]

For the record, I have built 1.5.1 from Intrepid's audacious / audacious-plugins source packages on Hardy. I directly installed Intrepid's binary libmcs & libmcs-devel packages to satisfy dependencies. So far, it's working just fine. I consider libmcs a low-risk upgrade, since so few packages depend on it.

[Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall)]

The libmcs change was a major change: 0.4 to 0.7, and has many rdepends. Marking this one WONTFIX.

For more info, please see the section on libraries in: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports