[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#576228: Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

Mark Brown broonie at sirena.org.uk
Thu Apr 1 20:08:12 UTC 2010


Sorry for the bad quoting, replying from my phone.

By 'library' it means an abstraction of some kind such as libsdl which will hide the particular kernel interface the program is talking to. This means that the application is insulated from any future changes in this area such as new kernels supported by Debian (like the BSDs). These are also often easier to use.

There probably are other programs affected that have not yet been found.

Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:

>Package: cynthiune.app
>Version: 0.9.5-9
>Severity: important
>Subject: Writes to /dev/dsp by default
>User: debian-release at lists.debian.org
>Usertags: oss-removal
>
>Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> * Removal of OSS
>>   Only three bugs remain to be resolved to get this release goal
>>   achieved.
>
>Not entirely true, and I suspect Cynthiune is not the only program
>missing in that list.
>
>Current status: I have an ALSA bundle ready (default for GNU/Linux;
>the OSS bundle remains default for GNU/kFreeBSD; Esound and arts are
>deprecated and only activated upon user's request) -- it is working
>well except the occasional crashes which happen for all threaded
>GNUstep apps.  I was unable to track down this GNUstep bug,
>unfortunately, but I keep trying from time to time.  I will not upload
>a new release with the ALSA bundle until it is fixed.
>
>One thing that puzzles me is that the wiki page says one should use
>libraries and not access /dev/dsp directly -- I wonder which are those
>libraries, precisely?  (cynthiune.app uses the NSFileHandle
>asynchronous API to write to /dev/dsp, which seems to be the best
>approach.)
>
>
>


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