[lucid] Please update liblo to 0.26 version

[Stephen Sinclair]

liblo 0.23 is out-of-date, please upgrade package to 0.26 version.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

I did a quick check of the library symbols, and it seems that there is quite a number of new symbols in the new version:

lo_address_get_protocol
lo_address_get_ttl
lo_address_set_ttl
lo_arg_network_endian
lo_bundle_free_messages
lo_get_path
lo_message_add_internal
lo_message_add_varargs_internal
lo_message_deserialise
lo_message_get_argc
lo_message_get_argv
lo_message_get_types
lo_server_get_protocol
lo_server_new_multicast
lo_server_thread_new_multicast
lo_server_thread_new_with_proto
lo_validate_arg
lo_validate_blob
lo_validate_bundle
lo_validate_string

I'm also attaching an icheck log which shows the API/ABI changes detected.

However, you have neither bumped the soname nor the library version?

[Stephen Sinclair (radarsat1)]

Okay, I see. I'll pay more attention to the version-info in the future. I may issue a point-release to fix it, in which case I'll CC the package maintainer.

[Tim Jones (tjones01)]

Would something like this patch be appropriate, to change the library version?

[Stephen Sinclair (radarsat1)]

Yes, that's basically the plan. We are trying to organize a release 0.26 by the end of Jan., so it seems logical to wait until then, at which point the new release will contain this change to the soname.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

liblo (0.26-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #255360).
  * debian/control:
    - Change deprecated tag ${Source-Version} to (= ${binary:Version}).
    - Add ${misc:Depends}
    - Fix homepage.

 -- Artur Rona <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:43:50 +0200

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you send your work to debian too? the package is in sync and it would be nice to keep it this way

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

I could, but now I don't have way to debian - matter about few days. So it would be nice, if you'll upload package to ubuntu, but I'll send changes to debian soon.

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

Do you have already commited the changes to Debian?

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

No, but I think that it's possible upload first to Ubuntu, later to Debian. I don't have way to Debian yet.

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

I will make a request for Debian.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

hm... lots of rdepends.
Can you give a rationale for the update apart from that it's newer (as in it fixes this and that bug and provides that cool feature)

Also, I'd like to see a diff of symbols between the proposed version and the one in the archives.

Thanks,
    Stefan.

[StefanPotyra (sistpoty)]

(oh, setting back to new to make it part of motu-release's worklist. confirmed indicates FFe granted, so we don't normally look at these)

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

You can view the changelog here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=666522
For me the most important benefit is that I can package software for the JackAudio system that needs a newer version of liblo to acces OSC.
Also the new version contains a large amount of bugfixes and new features. (It would be a switch from liblo 0.23 to 0.26 - 3 versions difference)

[Dominic Sacré (dooooomi)]

In my opinion, the main reason to update is that liblo 0.23 had a bug which causes it to hang for about 5 seconds when opening a port. This was due to some problem with name resolution, and seems to happen on the majority of systems, including any vanilla Ubuntu install.
What this means is that a large number of audio applications, including DSSI plugins etc., take significantly longer to start than they should. Of course there are other bugfixes and new features as well, so an update of the package is really long overdue.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What testing has been done with the rdepends?

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

What is rdepends? How can I test it?

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

 rdepends = reverse dependencies
=> Check if all depending packages work with the new version
I've already tested whysynth, jamin, jackbeat and ardour

@Scott Kitterman: Have you recognized Cesare Tirabassi's ICheck-Results?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It has gotten rather late for this, so I'm leaving the bug open for Lucid, but unsubscribing motu-release.

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

liblo 0.26 is in experimental, so we can sync into lucid later.

[Dominic Sacré (dooooomi)]

Any progress on this one? Will liblo 0.26 make it into Lucid?

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi,

Why not syncing/merge from Debian?! The result will be the same, and it doesn't seems that there are ugly bugs in Debian (even if it's in experimental).
And what about the rdepends? apt-cache shows 23 packages. Can you upload the new liblo to a ppa, and also upload some of the rdepends, to check what will be the impact of the new lib?

thanks,
Fabrice

[Artur Rona (ari-tczew)]

Fabrice, check bug 514491

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

marking this one a duplicate of the sync request.
Anyway, I think that an analysis of the rdepend is important, to check the impact of the lib upgrade