[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#584249: audacious-plugins: [regression] shows meaningless timer values when playing Internet streams

[Francesco Poli (t1000)]

Package: audacious-plugins
Version: 2.3-2
Severity: normal

Hi!

Thanks for maintaining audacious: version 2.3-2, which has recently
migrated into testing, fixes many issues!    :-)

I noticed a regression, though.

As discussed in bug #500081, I set Time Remaining for the timer.

When playing an Internet radio stream, audacious used to show
the elapsed time, regardless of the timer mode setting, since the
remaining time cannot be computed for a stream (which is virtually
never-ending).

With version 2.3-2, this behavior changed.

Now, with the timer set to "Time Remaining", audacious shows
meaningless timer values (such as "--4:-0", "--2:-3", and similar)
while playing Internet radio streams.

Please restore the previous behavior, that is to say:

  * when playing streams, always show the elapsed time

  * when playing local audio files, show the remaining time or the
    elapsed time, depending on the user configuration (timer_mode).




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages audacious-plugins depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.22-2         shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.30.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudcore1             2.3-2            audacious core engine library
ii  libaudid3tag2           2.3-2            audacious id3 tag manipulation lib
ii  libavcodec52            4:0.5.1-3        ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52           4:0.5.1-3        ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49             4:0.5.1-3        ffmpeg utility library
ii  libbinio1ldbl           1.4-14           Binary I/O stream class library
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-9         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2               1.8.10-4         The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcddb2                1.2.1-1          library to access CDDB data - runt
ii  libcdio-cdda0           0.81-4           library to read and control digita
ii  libcdio10               0.81-4           library to read and control CD-ROM
ii  libcue1                 1.4.0-1          CUE Sheet Parser Library
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.24-1         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.86-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libesd0                 0.2.41-7         Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfaad2                2.7-4            freeware Advanced Audio Decoder - 
ii  libflac8                1.2.1-2+b1       Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libfluidsynth1          1.1.1-4          Real-time MIDI software synthesize
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.11-1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.4.4-1        GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.1-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.20.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjack0                1.9.5~dfsg-13    JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  liblircclient0          0.8.3-5          infra-red remote control support -
ii  libmad0                 0.15.1b-5        MPEG audio decoder library
ii  libmcs1                 0.7.1-1          Abstraction library to store confi
ii  libmms0                 0.4-2            MMS stream protocol library - shar
ii  libmowgli1              0.6.1-1          a high performance development fra
ii  libmtp8                 1.0.2-3          Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii  libneon27-gnutls        0.29.3-2         An HTTP and WebDAV client library 
ii  libogg0                 1.2.0~dfsg-1     Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.28.0-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpulse0               0.9.21-1         PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libresid-builder0c2a    2.1.1-8          SID chip emulation class based on 
ii  libsamplerate0          0.1.7-3          Audio sample rate conversion libra
ii  libsdl1.2debian         1.2.14-6         Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libshout3               2.2.2-5+b1       MP3/Ogg Vorbis broadcast streaming
ii  libsidplay2             2.1.1-8          SID (MOS 6581) emulation library
ii  libsndfile1             1.0.21-2         Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-1          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-14      userspace USB programming library
ii  libvorbis0a             1.3.1-1          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.3.1-1          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisfile3          1.3.1-1          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwavpack1             4.60.1-1         an audio codec (lossy and lossless
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-3        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcomposite1          1:0.4.1-1        X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.4-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxml2                 2.7.7.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.5-2        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages audacious-plugins recommends:
ii  audacious                     2.3-2      small and fast audio player which 

audacious-plugins suggests no packages.

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