On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:54:00AM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
> >> Is it an idea to remove the pulseaudio packages from Ubuntu and backport 
> >> the Debian ones to Ubuntu Hardy (64studio)?
> >
> > That's not really needed: the reason that the ubuntu package doesn't include
> > the jack modules is mainly political, not technical. 
> >   
> >> the Ubuntu folks have a weird seperation between the core
> >> .debs and the non-core .debs. PA is among the former, JACK among the
> >> latter. Since core stuff is not allowed to depend on non-core stuff
> >> they build PA without JACK support.
> >>
> >> Which is completely broken if I may say so, The Ubuntu folks really
> >> should get that fixed.
>
> Ok, another quote from the pulseaudio list:
> 
> Being formerly one of the 'Ubuntu folk' (Arch FTW), I can testify that
> all you have to do is download the pulse-module-jack.deb from debian and
> install it over your Ubuntu pulse install. It functions fine then. Well,
> except for the existing module-jack-sink/source bugs of course.

This is, unfortunately, no longer true as jaunty and sid now carry a different
pulseaudio version. Mixing Ubuntu and Debian pulseaudio-packages is unneeded 
and error-prone.

> I suggest to add pulse-module-jack to the 64studio repo but don't install it 
> as default but give users the change to do it.

+1 - but please do build pulse-module-jack and the other pulseaudio packages 
from the same source package (Debian or Ubuntu doesn't matter - they're 
probably not very different anyway).


Arnout
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