Bug#770138: vlc is built without oss support

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2014-12-10 18:26:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Sebastian Ramacher (2014-12-10 17:24:16)
> > On 2014-11-19 05:45:28, HJ wrote:
> >> It's impossible to get any sound from vlc since it was build without 
> >> oss support(--enable-oss)--> makes the whole package unusable/broken 
> >> on oss4
> >
> > oss support was disabled because the oss module failed to build in one 
> > of the preX versions of 2.2.0. Also, provided that I remember 
> > upstream's position correctly, oss on Linux is currently unmaintained. 
> > Until that changes, we won't enable the oss module on Linux.
> 
> Please reconsider: What was unclear in the original bugreport is that 
> oss4 is (mainly, if not solely) for non-Linux architectures.
> 
> If enabling OSS support cause VLC to become unstable, then I suggest to 
> enable it only on non-Linux archs, by the argument that unstable VLC is 
> better than totally silent VLC on those archs.

On non-Linux architectures, OSS is still enabled. That's why I also
wrote "we won't enable the oss module on *Linux*".

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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