On Saturday 29 August 2009 04:30:59 AG wrote: > According to some of the folk who have developed Amarok, Amazon has > changed their API which now means that Amarok is unable to access and > download album cover art. However, a patch has been released but I have > no idea on how to apply the patch to the application. > > Looking this up on Google seems to suggest that I download the source > code for the application (Amarok) and then several other files as well > (the names escape me now). When I did start off down this road, apt-get > wanted to pull in a whole bunch of additional files which scared me off > a bit from wanting to go any further. > > What I would appreciate is: > > (a) asking the upstream Amarok maintainers for Debian if they are aware > of these issues regarding the Amazon changes to their APIs and, if so, > whether the patch is any good and whether it'll be included in an > update? (This assumes that any maintainers read this list); and
The best way to do this is by filing a bug. You can also attach the patch to the bug and the tag the bug "patch" to get it a bit more attention. It may not be appropriate for stable though. The stable release team is fairly picky about what changes get into stable; erring on the side of leaving know breakages instead of introducing unknown breakages at times. > (b) some guidance in relatively straightforward terms on how to apply a > patch to an application. A link to a "how-to" is fine ... aside from > bug reports and how to apply kernel patches, there was very little that > I could come up with using Google. Basically, it is download the source code, apply the patch (usually using "cd $some_directory && patch -p1 < $the_patch"), then go through the normal build process to get a package. apt-get was probably trying to bring in all the packages you need for the build process. They are normally not installed on a end-user machine, but you'll need a lot of -dev packages and various utilities (both Debian-specific and general) to build something like Amarok. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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