Bug#835838: pulseaudio: Do not intercept ALSA if environment variable is set

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Javier Serrano Polo <javier at jasp.net> wrote:
> X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>
> El dc 21 de 09 de 2016 a les 10:36 -0300, Felipe Sateler va escriure:
>> Alsa maintainers, what do you think?
>
> Maintainers remain silent.
>
>> Adding a similar check for a variable named
>> like PULSE_DISABLE_ALSA_PLUGIN or something like that should be very
>> simple.
>
> Felipe, what do you prefer? To apply the patch with PULSE_ALSA_HOOK_CONF
> in pulseaudio or if I implement PULSE_DISABLE_ALSA_PLUGIN in ALSA and
> you do a NMU?

I am definitely not comfortable doing an NMU of alsa for this.

Could you check with the release team if this change would be OK for stretch?

Otherwise I can queue this up for buster.

Either way, I'd still prefer if this was done upstream on the alsa
side. Could you propose such a patch to the upstream alsa developers?

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler