[Pkg-alsa-devel] Re: Trying to test libhydrogen for ALSA incompatibility, need help :)

[guenter geiger]

Hi,

libhydrogen will go away, the library is now part of the hydrogen
package itself. I have asked the release team to hint it for removal.
So don't worry about this package.
Anyhow, brave :)

Ah, on another topic. ALSA depends on JACK, because of the JACK plugin
for ALSA. I think it would make sense to drop this plugin for now,
and release ALSA from the burden of the jack dependency.

The problem with the plugin is, that it seems to only work with
aplay, and with no other software I have tried yet, so it seems to be
pretty useless.

Later it still could be added as a separate source package. I am in
contact with the author of the plugin, and we hope that it will be
fixed some day.

Greetings,

Guenter

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, David B Harris wrote:

> Hey there. The Debian ALSA team (of which I'm a part) is going to be
> uploading a new version of libasound2 to unstable soon, and it includes
> a source incompatibility with previous versions.
>
> The short of it is that an API change was introduced a while ago, but
> compatibility code was in place and the default was to use the old API.
> However, with the most recent release, that's changed; now you need to
> add the following defines before you include <asound.h> or
> <alsa/asoundlib.h> (or any header with prototypes the functions in
> question):
>
> #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API
> #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API
>
> We're filing pre-emptive bugs on packages which are fixed by adding
> those defines, but I wasn't able to really figure out why yours failed
> to build. I had hoped you could lend a hand - attached is a log of the
> build failure.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>