[Pkg-alsa-devel] Regarding asoundconf

[Jordi Mallach]

[ Reposted, I sent this to the wrong address and it never hit the list, argh! ]

Hi Elimar and others,

16:42 < jordi> TheMuso, pitti: there's a discussion in the Debian ALSA team 
               regarding what to do about asoundconf.
16:42 < pitti> jordi: ugh, *blows the dust away*, that still exists..
16:43 < jordi> TheMuso, pitti: we're getting bugs, I've noticed we don't have 
               some fixes/additions that are present in Ubuntu packages and if 
               we're going to keep it in Debian we really need someone from 
               Ubuntu taking care of that part
16:44 < jordi> TheMuso, pitti: elimar removed it entirely from SVN, I'm holding 
               the upload while I try to make a decision which maybe is less 
               drastic...
16:44 < pitti> jordi, TheMuso: do you actually think that we still need it? at 
               least in GNOME and KDE we have much better ways to configure 
               audio now..
16:44 < jordi> pitti: but your reaction was funny. :)
16:44 < pitti> jordi: I'm all for that
16:45 < jordi> pitti: honestly I'd be happy to drop the python dep and get rid 
               of it entirely
16:45 < pitti> jordi: it might have been a good hack 5 years ago, but right now 
               I feel that it's hopelessly outdated by all the pulseaudio stuff
16:45 < jordi> pitti: nod, Debian doesn't do pulseaudio by default though. 
               Maybe this is a good time to push it
16:45 < pitti> jordi: eventually Debian will have to as well
16:46 < pitti> jordi: it's more and more becoming a required GNOME component
16:46 < jordi> pitti: how does pulse replace asoundconf
16:46 < pitti> jordi: for jaunty we jumped through some hoops to keep it 
               halfway optional, but we can't sustain that
16:47 < pitti> jordi: well, in the new world you don't configure alsa any more, 
               you tell your app to which pulse sink to route its audio, etc.
16:47 < pitti> jordi: from my POV it can be ripped out for good
16:48 < pitti> jordi: TheMuso might have a broader opinion wrt. ubuntu studio, 
               though
16:48 < jordi> pitti: that's enough for me then. Thanks for the valuable input. 
               May I mention you also are in favour of getting rid of it in the 
               changelog's rationaler?
16:48 < pitti> jordi: absolutely
16:48 < jordi> pitti: *nod*. as ubuntu already carries a good deal of 
               asoundconf delta, if studio needed it it can be added entirely 
               to the buuntu diff
16:48 < jordi> pitti: thanks mate

So this settles it. Elimar, I'll upload alsa-utils ASAP. Again, you
were right ;)

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