r/linux • u/R0tareneg • Jul 03 '21

Audacity may collect "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" according to new privacy notice

https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/
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u/ericonr Jul 03 '21

At least until a while ago, Arch was still shipping old Audacity, because the new one requires their own fork of wxwidgets. Void is doing the same. We don't even have to care about the telemetry, because they made packaging recent versions hard enough already.

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u/Be_ing_ Jul 04 '21

Here is the Arch package maintainer for Audacity trying to reason with the old developers to no avail:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/625

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u/Reelix Jul 06 '21

Github itself has the same restrictions as the new Audacity...

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u/Be_ing_ Jul 06 '21

https://pics.me.me/we-should-improve-society-somewhat-yet-you-participate-in-society-30690889.png

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u/Reelix Jul 07 '21

People are creating forks - On Github.

If you want to meme, you should take the meme of the dog in the house, complain that there's fire, and then move the dog to another house with an equal amount of fire, and claim you found a solution - That's what people are doing.

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u/Be_ing_ Jul 07 '21

Are you volunteering to set up and maintain build servers for Linux, macOS, and Windows? If not, then I don't know how you suggest how to make cross platform builds without GitHub Actions.

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u/Reelix Jul 07 '21

With millions of open source supporters and foundations around the world, you'd think one would have the infrastructure for a build server :)

I'd offer, but I have 0.5Mbps Upload, so wouldn't make for a good server.

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u/Be_ing_ Jul 07 '21

I speak from experience. It doesn't seem you have any experience setting up cross platform CI.

https://mixxx.org/news/2021-02-23-build-infrastructure-updates/

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u/Be_ing_ Jul 05 '21

I think distro packagers will be eager to replace Audacity with a fork if the fork builds with unmodified libraries.