time for an ABI and SOVERSION?

[sten0]

Hi Luciano,

I was comparing Debian (and derivatives) to macOS the other day, and I was shocked to find that Debian doesn't seem to have any denoising plugins. I quickly found noise-repellant, which led me to its prerequisite libspecbleach, and I did preliminary work packaging it for Debian. Then I ran into a surprising issue that makes me ask:

Is libspecbleach ready to be packaged for a mainstream distribution? If so, is there any reason why it doesn't have an ABI and SOVERSION yet?

Do you think noise-repellant is ready for producing use in vocals and voiceover, or would https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice better for now? My concern with noise-suppression-for-voice is that it only supports 48kHz, plus possible DFSG issues with https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise neural net and/or generating the trained neural net, since I'm not an audio scientist with expensive gear (nor someone with the background to set up the data gathering in a methodologically sound way).

What do you recommend? 😄
Nicholas (sten in the Debian project)