Bug#553182: libesd0 needs /dev/dsp, provided by oss-compat

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 29 octobre 2009 à 12:01 +0000, Martin Guy a écrit : 
> Package: libesd0
> Version: 0.2.41-5
> 
> libesd0 needs /dev/dsp to work, and that device is provided by the
> oss-compat package, so libesd0 should require oss-compat.
> 
> Example: madplay requires libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35)
> but if libesd0 is installed (and oss-compat isn't) it dies saying:
> audio: /dev/dsp: No such file or directory

Good point. Newly built packages should depend on libesd-alsa0 | libesd0
instead, but for some old builds libesd0 is still pulled.

I’m wondering whether there’s any point at all keeping two packages on
Linux systems. There could be a single package, using ALSA on Linux and
OSS on other architectures.

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