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Package: conky
Version: 1.9.0-3
Severity: wishlist
Please build conky with ALSA support. It's the only package on my
system that still requires OSS compatibility.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages conky depends on:
ii conky-std 1.9.0-3
conky recommends no packages.
conky suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Kevin Velghe <[email protected]> wrote:
> About 6 weeks ago, I found this bug when searching why the volume
> indicator didn't work. Apparently, ALSA support has been removed
> upstream in 2010:
> https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky/commit/ce5a64d08af7e58b9f4d8e2f2f621bdc821faf75
Ah, that would explain it...
I'll close this bug report; there's nothing that can be done on the
packaging side unless upstream decides to re-introduce ALSA support
(I'm not going to carry this as a Debian-specific diff).
> I included a patch removing ALSA from the description and dependencies.
> The text should probably be reflowed, but I don't seem to find any
> guideline about this. Various lengths seem to be used, and most packages
> don't seem to be consistent about it.
Strictly speaking, the only requirement for package descriptions is
that they're wrapped to 80 characters/line. Thanks for the patch!
Regards,
Vincent
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