Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:25:12 (CET), Adrian Knoth wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 02:24:49AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>
>> >> On the other hand, for casual use of jack, a more stable version would
>> >> be preferred over a more featureful one. 
>> > Unfortunately, this is only half of the story. For the occasional use of
>> > jack, jackd2 is easier to use, because it can suspend pulseaudio.
>> 
>> Let me add a third half to the story then :-) Lennart (as in the
>> PulseAudio developer) came up with an idea of reserving / letting go of
>> audio devices via calls over D-Bus. This is not implemented in jack1.
>> I haven't tested jackd2, but I believe it is implemented there.
>> 
>> I don't think any of them actually *suspends* PulseAudio.
>
> This is what I was talking about. It's device reservation via D-Bus, and
> it requires jackdbus from the jackd2 package to work.