[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#229312 acknowledged by developer (Re: Future FTBFS - libasound2-dev source-incompatibility)

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#229312: Future FTBFS - libasound2-dev source-incompatibility,
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* Adeodato Simó [Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:18:04 +0200]:

> * David B Harris [Sat, 24 Jan 2004 04:30:02 -0500]:

> > Package: libao
> > Severity: important

> Hello,

> > Hello :) The Debian ALSA packaging team will shortly be uploading a new
> > version of libasound, which unfortunately includes a source-level
> > incompatibility introduced by upstream. We don't feel it's appropriate
> > to differ from other distributions in this respect, and the number of
> > affected packages is small, so we are instead pre-emptively filing a few
> > bugs here and there.

>   It seems this bug report has become obsolete. Please consider closing
>   if you consider it appropriate, thanks.

  Let's do it now.

> > What it boils down to is that the snd_set_hw_params API (maybe some
> > others too) were changed some time ago, but without #defining a variable
> > indicating that the new API was to be used, the old API was default.

> > With the latest upstream release, this behaviour is reversed - in order
> > to use your current API calling methods, you need to add these defines
> > before you include <alsa/asound.h> (or any other header which prototypes
> > those functions):

> > #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API
> > #define ALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API

> > Attached is the log of the build failure for the package you maintain.

> > Thanks very much :) We'll be uploading the new libasound within a week
> > or two, but rest assured that if you upload an updated package
> > beforehand, it will work with the current version of libasound in
> > unstable.

> > (Note that for maximum compatibility, using the old API and adding the
> > defines is preferrable to switching to using the new API.)

> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > Architecture: i386
> > Kernel: Linux willow 2.6.1-a3 #3 Tue Jan 20 23:22:44 EST 2004 i686
> > Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA




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