Please update sox in hardy to fix bugs

[Reuben Thomas]

Binary package hint: sox

SoX 14.0.1 has been out since the end of January, and fixes some important bugs in 14.0.0, particularly low-level file handling bugs dealing with things like using SoX in pipes or on full disks. See here:

http://sox.cvs.sourceforge.net/sox/sox/ChangeLog?view=markup

Please consider including it in hardy.

(Twin declaration of interest: I'm both a keen user of SoX and an upstream maintainer. I'm keen therefore both to have the convenience of a precompiled version in hardy, and to avoid the tedium of bug reports for long-fixed bugs.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 5 13:39:12 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: sox 14.0.0-5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/epocemx/bin:/home/username/bin:/home/username/local/i686/bin:/home/username/local/bin:/home/username/.luarocks/bin:/home/username/Work/Adsensus/svn/nancy/trunk:/home/username/Work/Adsensus/svn/adsensus/trunk:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: sox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-15-generic i686

[Pascal Giard (pascalgiard-debian)]

Please synch with my Debian package (14.0.1-2).

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This should have been brought to the attention of motu-release since hardy was frozen. Anyhow, we will autosync for intrepid and, if you require it, may make it as a backport for hardy.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Sorry, I'm not so familiar with Ubuntu procedure. I would indeed suggest a backport and if possible an update for hardy, as relative to the included version the newer version includes many bug fixes, including several important ones to bugs that might otherwise cause considerable grief over hardy's lifetime.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Once the new version is in intrepid, you can request a backport following the procedure detailed in:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports

An update is a little more difficult, if you do have a patch ready that addresses the bugs it would tremendously help (note that for an SRU only major bugs should be addressed, ie. those that render the application unusable).
The procedure for that is here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Note that, whichever way you want to go, it would help to open a new bug which covers it.