beast (0.7.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
[ Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) ]
* debian/control:
+ Loosen glib versioned build-dependency.
[ Alessio Treglia ]
* Taking this under Debian Multimedia Maintainers's umbrella,
ACK'd by Sam Hocevar (Closes: #564799):
- Move Sam to the Uploaders field.
- Add myself to the Uploaders field.
- Move packaging to git, update VCS-* tags properly.
* Acknowledge NMU: 0.7.1-5.2: thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli for the good job.
* Acknowledge NMU: 0.7.1-5.1: thanks to Chris Lamb for the good job.
* New upstream release (Closes: #625854):
- Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.4:
+ Renamed the project to Better Audio System / Better Sound Engine
+ Moved project website to: http://beast.testbit.eu/
+ Various build system fixes
+ License fixups for some scripts
+ Fixed subnormal tests on AMD64 if SSE unit is in DAZ mode
+ Replaced slow resampler checks with a much faster resampling test
+ Performance improvements for various tests
+ GLib 2.28 unit test porting
+ Speed improvements for record field name
+ Fixed XRUNs in ALSA driver on 64bit systems
+ Added beast.doap
+ PO handling improvements.
+ Updated German translation.
+ Updated Norwegian bokmål translation
+ Added e-Telugu translation
- Overview of Changes in BEAST/BSE 0.7.2:
+ Moved Beast/BSE to GNU LGPL, use AS-IS license for examples
+ Module changes and additions:
ArtsCompressor - relicensed to LGPL
BseContribSampleAndHold - relicensed to LGPL
DavXTalStrings - Use deterministic random numbers for unit tests.
BseNoise - Improved random number generator.
+ Switched to autogenerated ChangeLogs
+ Error bell can be muted in beast preferences dialog
+ Added multisample creation/editing command line tool: bsewavetool
+ Support adjustable volume, pitching and drum envelopes in .bsewave files
+ Added Retro Acoustic drum kit
+ New loadable Instruments/Effects:
BQS Bass Drum E8012
BQS Slow Hum
FSM Fresh Water Bass instrument
FSM Growl Bass instrument
FSM Synth String Sweep
+ Added support for loading 32bit and 24bit PCM-format WAV files
+ Added support for gcc-4.4 and automake-1.10
+ Added support for guile-1.8, guile-1.6 remains as minimum requirement
+ Various fixes, improvements and much improved test coverage.
+ Bug fixes: #452604, #468229, #344388, #451086, #450724, #454121,
#491552, #450490, #441936, #336766, #433431, #474332, #474244,
#456879, #456408, #424897
+ Migrated translation support to use awk, sed and po/Makefile.am.
+ Updated German translation
+ Updated Italien translation
+ Updated Occitan translation
+ Updated Brazilian Portugues translation
+ Updated British English translation
+ Updated Spanish translation
+ Updated Slovenian translation
+ Updated Danish translation
+ Updated French translation
+ Added Norwegian bokmal translation
+ Added Ukrainian translation
* Switch to DH7 pure form, 3.0 (quilt) format.
* Bump DH compatibility to 7.
* Split in several packages:
- libbse-0.7-4 to provide shared library.
- libbse-dev to provide the development files.
- beast to provide the executables.
- bse-alsa to provide the plugin for ALSA:
+ Replacement for the current bse-alsa built from bse.
- beast-doc to provide the documentation.
* debian/control:
- One-dep-per-line style.
- Add Homepage field.
- Bump up debhelper requirement.
- Build-Depends on libasound2-dev.
- Build-Depends on autotools-dev.
- Build with guile-1.8.
- Drop shared-mime-info build-dependency.
- Add ${misc:Depends} to beast's Depends field.
- beast Breaks bse-alsa << 0.7.4.
- Add Enhances: beast to bse-alsa.
- Remove unneeded Conflicts on cmt << 1.15, current stable has cmt 1.16
- Fix lintian "debhelper-but-no-misc-depends" warning.
- Bump Standards.
- Add proper Breaks,Replaces fields.
- Add Suggests: beast-doc to beast's and libbse-dev's stanzas.
* debian/rules:
- Don't pass unrecognized options to configure, add --enable-debug=yes.
- Don't install install symlinks by hand, use dh_link.
- Exclude plugins,alsa-driver from being treated as shared libraries.
- Remove manual deletion of /usr/share/mime created files;
thanks to Ilya Barygin (Closes: #563524).
- Link with --as-needed.
- Don't remove data/beast-audio-x-bse.png in the clean target.
- Install NEWS file as upstream changelog.
- A bit of clean-up.
- Get rid of unneeded *.la files (Closes: #621234).
* debian/copyright:
- The sources have been relicensed to LGPL.
- Rewrite as per DEP-5 spec proposal.
- Add missing copyright,licensing information.
- Update copyright years.
* Add watch file.
* Add gbp config file.
* Remove patches applied upstream:
- debian/patches/200_signal_h.diff
- debian/patches/201_sparc_alignment.diff
- debian/patches/202_gcc43.diff
- debian/patches/300_mksignals_bashism.diff
- debian/patches/400_desktop_file.diff
* Add patch to fix FTBFS with GCC4.5.
* Add patch to remove Encoding field from the desktop file.
* Remove unneeded debian/README.Debian.
-- Alessio Treglia <email address hidden> Sat, 07 May 2011 12:11:50 +0200
