Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The update itself seems fine; my only reservation is that the original bug > doesn't seem serious enough to justify the inherent risk factors of an > update. It seems that it would affect only a very small number of users (on > particular hardware and doing stereo audio capture?).
As I understand it, the bug affects the vast majority of PC audio hardware. Most on-board audio chipsets use the buggy "simple mixer" and so do the majority of consumer-grade PCI sound cards. (Higher-end [Audigy] and other specialty audio hardware use different mixer code and are not affected.) I suppose any update is a risk factor, but the changes to the existing package are minimal and completely isolated. This is much less of a risk than upgrading the whole library to 1.0.11 would be. -- Stereo line-in capture broken in alsa-lib 1.0.10 for "simple mixer" cards. https://launchpad.net/bugs/62855 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
