[pulseaudio-discuss] pavucontrol: new release?

[Arun Raghavan]

On 23 March 2015 at 11:45, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
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> On 2015-03-16 14:49, David Henningsson wrote:
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>> On 2015-03-13 14:28, Peter Mattern wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> The number of commits since last pavucontrol release isn't that high but
>>> they do comprehend quite a lot of rather important bug fixes, imo.
>>>
>>> A probably related finding is that compiling 2.0 code on recent systems
>>> seems to have issues.
>>> E. g. on up-to-date Arch Linux x86_64 compiling the usual way seems to
>>> work flawlessly but yields a binary segfaulting right upon start
>>> (systemd journal: 'kernel: traps: pavucontrol[4102] general protection
>>> ip:7f34c9809f3f sp:7fffd8d80820 error:0 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.4200.2').
>>> Problem can't be seen with Git code.
>>>
>>> So all in all I'm wondering whether a minor or point release of
>>> pavucontrol wouldn't make sense.
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>>
>> Indeed it would. I was actually about to do so, but then this flu thing
>> went viral. I'm working on rebuilding myself into a less buggy state
>> again before sneezing out an rc.
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>
> Hrm, this pavucontrol application seems a bit difficult to test (and I do
> want to test it before I release it...)
>
> How do you others do it? First, if I try an out-of-tree build, it fails
> updating some README file. Second, if I don't, it does compile, but running
> from build directory fails with Gtk::Builder::add_from_file throwing a
> Glib::FileError. Any tricks I'm missing here?

The out-of-tree build failure sounds like a bug that should be fixed.

-- Arun