Debian Patches

Status for audacity/4.0.1+dfsg-2

Patch Description Author Forwarded Bugs Origin Last update
1000_git_optional.patch Make git optional for building

The extdeps resolver only needs git for git-kind dependency sources (none
are used by Audacity 4.0.1, all deps are tarballs) and for applying
DEP_PATCHES via `git apply`. `find_program(GIT ... REQUIRED)` made a
missing git binary a hard configure error even for pure tarball deps.

This patch makes the lookup optional and falls back to `patch -p1` for
applying the (few) DEP_PATCHES, so the package builds fully offline and
without a git binary installed.

Applies to muse_deps/buildtools/resolve.cmake (source-kind deps) and
muse_deps/buildtools/build_dependency.cmake (library-kind deps built via
build_dep()).		 Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org> yes 2026-10-10
0002_deactivate-fdk-aac.patch Disable the fdk-aac based AAC exporter

libfdk-aac is non-free, so a dependency on it would move the audacity
binary package to contrib. The audio framework still links an AAC encoder
against fdk-aac (muse_audio_engine), although no code path in the AU4
application uses it: both the regular export dialog and the cloud export go
through the AU3 exporter (IExporter/Au3Exporter) instead.

AAC/M4A export keeps working through the AU3 FFmpeg export plugin
(mod-ffmpeg/ExportFFmpeg, FMT_M4A) which uses libavcodec, so removing the
fdk-aac encoder loses no user-facing AAC export capability.

This patch drops require_dep(fdk-aac) from the extdeps manifest, stops
building aacencoder.cpp/.h into muse_audio_engine, drops the
fdk-aac::fdk-aac link, and replaces the AacEncoder arm in
soundtrackwriter.cpp with `return nullptr` (same effect, avoids a
-Wswitch warning).		 Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org> no 2026-10-10
1001_unversioned-share-dir.patch Make the data share directory name overridable (AU4_INSTALL_NAME)

The Muse-derived build would create a version-scoped data directory
(share/audacity-4.0) for locale, workspaces and testflowscripts. Debian
packages conventionally install into /usr/share/audacity (unversioned - only
one version is installed per package). This wraps the AU4_INSTALL_NAME
default in if(NOT DEFINED ...), so the value can be overridden from the
package build: debian/rules passes -DAU4_INSTALL_NAME=audacity/. The AU3
side (PathList.cpp) already expects the unversioned share/audacity, and the
runtime lookup (MUSE_APP_INSTALL_RESOURCES_LOCATION, compiled into the
binary) derives from the same variable, keeping install and lookup
consistent.		 Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org> yes 2026-10-11
0003_remove-system-qt-rpath.patch Drop the redundant system Qt library path from the RUNPATH

On Debian-based systems Qt6 is installed into the standard library
search path (/usr/lib/<multiarch>)		 Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org> not-needed 2026-10-11
1002_fix-desktop-launcher-name.patch Only set DESKTOP_LAUNCHER_NAME with "Portable" for portable builds

The DESKTOP_LAUNCHER_NAME variable is set unconditionally with "Portable",
causing non-portable builds to have "Portable" in the desktop file name.		 Dennis Braun <snd@debian.org> yes 2026-10-12

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