On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chris wrote: > > Do alsa-0.5 drivers actually work with libasound2 or > > should Daniel also revert libarts-alsa and libkmid-alsa > > to depend on libasound1 rather than libasound2 to be > > consistent with the changed (from when Ivan Moore was the > > maintainer) Debian-kde-alsa policy? Although I would > > prefer to see alsa-0.9 working with Debian-kde, I am > > willing to go along with a change back to alsa-0.5 so > > long as it is done consistently. But the dependency > > mixture we have now on both alsa-0.5 and alsa-0.9 > > libraries is not right, and might be the source of my > > midi troubles. > > As far as Woody is concerned, I think it would be > absolutely asinine to revert to alsa-0.5 considering how > far 0.9 has come. I'm all for policies that ensure > stability, but in my experience, alsa-0.9 works fine for > most people. Any advanced users are going to want 0.9 > anyways and people running servers don't care about > sound. Furthermore, what is now "alsa-0.9" is now in the > 2.5 kernel and I suppose you could say that alsa-1.0 is > going to be in the 2.6 kernel eventually. Is this going to > cause problems for people using alsa-0.5 libraries? If so, > I think this choice is clearly wrong.
I agree, but Daniel is a volunteer so we have to gently coax him to do the right thing....;-) Already, there are signs that the Debian maintainer of alsa is moving completely to 0.9 (or 1.0). The default packages (without suffix version numbers) are 0.9 while the special packages have a suffix of 0.5. So in any case I think the alsa-dependent Debian-KDE packages will soon be forced to go completely to 0.9 as well. For now, I would be satisfied if we either support 0.5 or 0.9, but having kmix depend on a 0.5 library and kmid depend on a 0.9 library (and optionally the 0.5 libesd-alsa0 library) is clearly wrong. The bottom line is that on my machine pmidi works fine, but kmid does not. Furthermore, nobody has reported a success with the current kmid (either with alsa 0.5, alsa 0.9 or even OSS drivers), and the previous (6 months ago was the last time I tested) Debian kmid worked fine. Therefore, I suspect that the current kmid build has been misconfigured, and if so I hope that Daniel gets that straightened out. Alan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________