ALSA and OSS

[Dale Anderson]

Can you give us a bit more background re the issue , I dont quite grok 
how this is an issue ...  , is the freebsd kernel using a OSS compat 
audio implementation ? , I thought it used its own , and apps using a 
sound api were ported as far as native fbsdlibc apps went via ports .

And at the end of the day the freebsd team are lilkely to be 
maintaining patches for such are they not ?

Regards
Dale.

On 2005-09-08 05:14:42 +1200 Robert Millan <rmh at aybabtu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> As you might know, packages that assume ALSA is provided are one of 
> the most
> common reasons for a package to FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD.
> 
> I fear that, when Linux 2.4 is no longer supported by Debian, the 
> situation 
> can
> go much worse.  Maintainers could start disabling use of OSS 
> interface because
> it's "deprecated", or even requesting removals of packages because 
> they only
> support OSS and not ALSA.
> 
> One of the things that can be done is packaging ossalsalib (aka 
> libsalsa) for
> Debian.  This would give us a lousy replacement for libasound.  Won't 
> work
> reasonably well, but at least we get rid of FTBFS problems.  
> Unfortunately the
> upstream code contains stuff specific to the non-free OSS 
> implementation by
> 4Front, and needs some work to compile with normal OSS, even on 
> GNU/Linux.
> (and I lack the time to do this, I'm afraid)
> 
> Another option could be a d-d-a mail explaining the situation, or 
> asking the
> release team for how long we're going to support Linux 2.4 in Debian.
> 
> Any suggestions?
>