Bug#400033: libopenal0a_0.0.8-1_i386.deb doesn't create /etc/openalrc

[Reinhard Tartler]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 06:40:02PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> > In general, it's a bad idea for library packages to provide config files. If
>> > this is an issue of incorrect defaults in the library, it should set
>> > reasonable compiled-in defaults.  If the problem is really that the
>> > compiled-in defaults don't work for these particular apps, then it should
>> > probably be the responsibility of those applications to override those
>> > defaults (with a config file or otherwise).
>
>> The next upstream version will default to alsa, AFAIUI. I will make the
>> next upstream version remove the config file, if unmodified.
>
> How can there be an unmodified config file, if today there's no config file
> at all?

Daniel Baumann just sponsored -2 for me (thanks!), which ships a
conffile. If next the next upstream version will indeed default to alsa
(or I figure out where to set that) , I will make the postinst check if
the conffile has been modified and remove that if not.

>> Scorched3d crashes at least on amd64 with having 'bird sound' on
>> somewhere in openal. Reported as #382060
>
> I tested scorched3d on amd64, and It Worked For Me.

Yes, the bug usually occurs at map change. Not every mapchange, but very
often.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4