[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#589896: Bug#599510: future unblock: alsa-lib/1.0.23-2.1
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Wed Oct 20 18:24:54 UTC 2010
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 14:54:05 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 at 10:01:07 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > I've uploaded a delayed/14 NMU for alsa-lib, for
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589896 (crashes due to
> > unloading plugins that are still in use), by backporting a patch from
> > upstream. Its diffstat looks like this:
> [...]
> > 7 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
> >
> > The full patch and the nmudiff are on #589896:
> [...]
> > If this is too intrusive for squeeze, there are potential workarounds for
> > #589896 in either alsa-lib (don't unload plugins whether they're in use or
> > not), PortAudio (don't tell ALSA to unload plugins), or OpenAL (forcibly
> > disable PortAudio support, since PortAudio is the only backend that actually
> > tells ALSA to unload plugins, and isn't incredibly useful on Linux). There are
> > more details on the bug.
>
> Hi release team,
>
> Any thoughts on this? The NMU will come out of DELAYED in a couple of days
> unless I intervene, so please let me know if I should cancel it and
> prepare a package with one of the less intrusive workarounds instead.
>
Sorry for the delay. The NMU diff looks reasonable to me, thanks. Let
me know when it lands and I'll unblock the package.
Cheers,
Julien
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