Bug#413974: gstreamer-properties needs libesd-alsa0

Robert Millan [ackstorm] rmillan at ackstorm.es
Thu Mar 8 12:06:07 CET 2007


Package: gnome-media
Severity: important

By upstream decision, it appears that the gnome media subsystem is now
unusable with OSS.  When using OSS, esound blocks access to /dev/dsp and
all write attempts there result in EBUSY.

It seems they have provided no option in gstreamer-properties to pipe the
sound via esd, so the only option if you want mixing is to use ALSA.

Please, can you add a dependency [1] on libesd-alsa0 ?  Users shouldn't get
all these problems unless they explicitly need OSS.

[1] but please make it conditionalised so that it'll only happen when
    $(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS) equals "linux".

-- 
Robert Millan

ACK STORM, S.L.  -  http://www.ackstorm.es/





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