On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Arnout Engelen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:54:00AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > Arnout Engelen wrote: > > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > >> Is it an idea to remove the pulseaudio packages from Ubuntu and > backport > > >> the Debian ones to Ubuntu Hardy (64studio)? > > > > > > That's not really needed: the reason that the ubuntu package doesn't > include > > > the jack modules is mainly political, not technical. > > > > > >> the Ubuntu folks have a weird seperation between the core > > >> .debs and the non-core .debs. PA is among the former, JACK among the > > >> latter. Since core stuff is not allowed to depend on non-core stuff > > >> they build PA without JACK support. > > >> > > >> Which is completely broken if I may say so, The Ubuntu folks really > > >> should get that fixed. > > > > Ok, another quote from the pulseaudio list: > > > > Being formerly one of the 'Ubuntu folk' (Arch FTW), I can testify that > > all you have to do is download the pulse-module-jack.deb from debian and > > install it over your Ubuntu pulse install. It functions fine then. Well, > > except for the existing module-jack-sink/source bugs of course. > > This is, unfortunately, no longer true as jaunty and sid now carry a > different > pulseaudio version. Mixing Ubuntu and Debian pulseaudio-packages is > unneeded > and error-prone. > > > I suggest to add pulse-module-jack to the 64studio repo but don't install > it as default but give users the change to do it. > > +1 - but please do build pulse-module-jack and the other pulseaudio > packages > from the same source package (Debian or Ubuntu doesn't matter - they're > probably not very different anyway). Then I would say take the Debian sources.... \r
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