[PlanetCCRMA] libsndfile

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, David Nielson  wrote:
> Ardour3 has, for a long time, required version 1.0.18 of libsndfile
> (which has been out for a while now.) Ardour2 recently started requiring
> it if you're going to build it yourself. Fedora is still offering 1.0.17
> in its repositories, though libsndfile is up to 1.0.20 now.
>
> Can I request CCRMA make a package available of the newer version? Is
> that a bad idea? Should I pester Fedora about it? If so, where do I make
> the request?
>
> Thanks,
> David Nielson
>

libsndfile-1.0.20 will be on Fedora-12.

I suspect that it is ABI incompatible with libsndfile-1.0.17 and thus
updating libsndfile in stable releases of Fedora would require a
rebuilding of everything that depends on libsndfile. Therefore even
having a package in PlanetCCRMA would break things on the Fedora side.

Of course this analysis assumes ABI incompatibility. You can still try
your chances by filing a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com.

Orcan