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

[Jordi Mallach]

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Hi guenter,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:53:33AM +0100, guenter geiger wrote:
> 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 :)

Good to know, just 4 to go then :)

> 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.

I guess you talk about build-depends. It's not really such a burden, at
least for us... it makes alsa-lib transitions to testing a bit more
complicated, but the release guys know how to deal with it.

> 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.

Hmm, we got a few user requests to package it before we created the
libasound2-plugins package. Is it really so 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.

That'd be the best approach, yeah.

Jordi
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