various patches

There is still no package for 0.4.4 available in 9.10... How come?

By the way, as of yesterday LMMS 0.4.5 is out.

If possible, could LMMS be updated from 0.4.2 to 0.4.5 despite the feature-freeze?

0.4.5 is head and shoulders above the 0.4.2 release in terms of the amount of bugs fixed and features added. The newer release does not need any new dependencies apart from one relating to Zynaddsubfx, a software synthesizer already in the Ubuntu repositories.

Currently the only way to obtain the 0.4.5 release is by using tobydox's PPA repository here on launchpad. That repository provides more details about dependencies, etc.

I agree with mazza558 (of course). Can you please update it? I requested it before the feature freeze and it really, really needs to be updated...

Unsubscribing motu-release for now. We are past Feature Freeze, so if someone does the work to prepare and test and updated package, this bug can be adjusted to be a feature freeze exception and motu-release can be resubscribed.

I can't make the package, because it debuild says it failed. Can somebody else make this package? Or else, can someone make sure this package is in 10.04? (Or maybe a new version, cause' I'm sure that there will be a new version of LMMS before 10.04 comes out).

Good idea. We could use Tobydox's packages: https://launchpad.net/~tobydox/+archive/lmms

So if someone can get his packages in Karmic as a feature freeze exception, that would be great :)

Any progress on this?

I've resubscribed motu-release. Enough people have tested Tobydox's PPA archive version of LMMS 0.4.5 that there's no reason for it not to be included now. Testing has been done for nearly a month now, and no one has experienced any specific problems with the latest version on either Karmic or Jaunty - thus confirming that no dependencies have changes for any of the packages.

The relevant packages are:

lmms
lmms-common

and the lmms-vst metapackage.

That's true, Tobydox's packages work great on Jaunty and Karmic :) So will they be included in Karmic as a feature freeze exception?

Luis, Cory, that's a rdepends of ubuntustudio-audio. What do you think?

Any updates on this? We really, really don't want to see LMMS stuck at 0.4.2 even in Karmic - it gives users a bad impression, and people are forced to add a PPA repository to get the latest version. It should be as easy as browsing and finding the latest LMMS in add/remove.

FFe approved as per comment from Luis (recieved via mail).

As 0.4.5 is in unstable, I'd suggest to proceed by merging that.

Approved :)

Do I need to merge that, or does Luis do that?

I doubt that Luis is going for it, but someone has to do it though :).

I just saw, that the PPA from tobydox seems to have the -vst package still split off. Maybe that would also be a good point to look at.

The VST package is just a metapackage that pulls in Wine support which is needed for the use of Windows-based VST instruments in LMMS. It's not vital at all. Just as long as 0.4.5 gets into Karmic :)

As Tobias' ppa package was in pretty good shape, I've uploaded this after giving a short test.

This bug was fixed in the package lmms - 0.4.5-0ubuntu1

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lmms (0.4.5-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Rebase to Tobias Doerffel's ppa.
  * Exchange tarball with the one from unstable.
  * Upload to karmic, FFe at LP: #405318.

lmms (0.4.5~ppa-1jaunty) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Upload to jaunty

lmms (0.4.5~ppa-1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

lmms (0.4.4~ppa~intrepid-5) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/lmms.install: also package new ZynAddSubFX plugin

lmms (0.4.4~ppa~intrepid-4) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: really replace lmms-extras package

lmms (0.4.4~ppa~intrepid-3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: also replace lmms-extras package

lmms (0.4.4~ppa~intrepid-2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * debian/control: conflict with lmms-extras package

lmms (0.4.4~ppa~intrepid-1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * debian/control: recommend lmms-vst package, build-dep on libxft-dev

 -- Stefan Potyra <email address hidden> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:32:36 +0200

Yes! Thank you so much Stefan :D

I'd like to express my thanks as well.. nevertheless would it be possible to integrate the small set of patches attached? LMMS 0.4.6 is on the road and I picked the most urgent fixes (especially the VST fix) and I'd love to see them being integrated into Karmic's LMMS package.

Sure thing, I'll upload these this evening. Thanks for the patches!

Sorry, as ubuntustudio cd's are already building, too late for karmic proper, however Iulian was so kind to upload it to karmic-proposed, so that it will get processed via StableReleaseUpgrades.

There is an lmms package in karmic-proposed queue which only refers to this bug (nothing else), and has large changes. Deferring to motu-sru for granting this.

I think we need a new bug for the SRU that describes the patches and what
they fix.

Indeed. tobydox: could you please do that?

*puts on MOTU-SRU hat*

I think for the case of lmms, it could very well be appropriate to accept the package that Stefan uploaded into proposed, but I agree with ScottK in that I'd at least like an itemized list of bugs fixed by this new version, and some sort of verification procedure to proceed with testing the package.

If this can be provided in this bug report, I'd be happy to take a second look at it ASAP!

John: pssst: all your info is in the patches itself (just look closer at the tar.bz2) ;) Oh, and actually Iulian uploaded it :P.

I can't add a verification procedure (yet) though, but I can try and will do so. Help wanted, of course!

What verification procedure are we talking about? And what help is there needed to add it?

Vistaus: that's https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

Test cases as deduced by comments in the patches:
0001: I guess that's bug 474760
0014: connect midi device and check if lmms uses MidiControlChange events
0015: no test case, sorry. sane thing to do though.
0017: no idea myself. "It fixes issues on 64 bit machines, uninitialised variables and denormal issues." (from patch description)
0018: also no test case, simple patch though
0029: toggle off-screen children of main window and see how main-window scrollbars behave
0039: try loading Garritan Personal Orchestra 4 plugin, see if it hangs.

Seems no longer needed for the release available in Natty.
Please re-open if not so.

karmic has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".