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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