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[Chris J Arges <1450992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Kaj, or anyone else affected,

Accepted ardour3 into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ardour3/3.5.403~dfsg-3~ubuntu14.04.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag
from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the
bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing will help
us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  audio and MIDI files irreversibly deleted from disk

Status in ardour3 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ardour3 source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in ardour3 source package in Utopic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  Unfortunately I do not have any hard data on this. I can only quote
  the ardour development team on the last release of ardour3:

  "Ardour 3.5.403 is (yet another) CRITICAL bug fix release. ALL USERS
  ARE RECOMMENDED TO UPGRADE. Additionally, ALL LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS
  SHOULD IMMEDIATELY UPGRADE/UPDATE TO THIS RELEASE. Distributing
  earlier versions of 3.5 at this point is irresponsible and risks our
  users' data.

  As with 3.5.380, this release includes several more absolutely vital
  fixes for bugs could lead to audio and MIDI files being irreversibly
  deleted from disk.

  We still do not know precisely how these losses happened - no user
  ever found a reliable recipe to recreate all of them - but reports
  from several different users did lead to a careful code review which
  uncovered some potential for file loss. "

  source: http://ardour.org/news/3.5.older.html

  [Test Case]

  Since reproducing seemed difficult, I never tried. I can only refer to
  the quote above.

  [Regression Potential]

  Regression potential should be small. This is not a major update. The
  update I am proposing (ardour3 in vivid) is also the last update ever
  for ardour3, since ardour4 is now out.

  NOTE TO SRU TEAM:
  A backport SRU was chosen since the only packaging changes were to parallelize the build, fix slow arches timing out, and one more data loss bug.  There are no reverse dependencies (just the Ubuntu Studio meta package) and this gets us in sync with jessie.

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