On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 03:06:09AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Source: lletters
> Version: 0.1.95+gtk2-3.2
> .
> * Non-maintainer upload.
> * Add oss-compat dependency (closes: #703265).
I'm afraid this doesn't fix the bug, merely workarounds it in some cases.
It does change the bug's impact, though: instead of affecting nearly
everyone (thus fulfilling "mostly so" of the grave severity), after your
change it affects only those without a working sound card. It's pretty hard
to find a computer without one today, so that leaves mostly shared servers
(no permissions) or machines that need proprietary drivers Debian doesn't
ship. Ie, a quite rare situation.
The real bug is in lletters being unable to handle a failure to open/write
to /dev/dsp, which can be easily fixed. It'd be far better to make it work
with ALSA and/or PulseAudio, of course, like the exec("/usr/bin/play") hack
I proposed or something in-process, but my point is that the crash can still
happen.
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