ALSA and OSS

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi Dale,

Dale Anderson a écrit :
> 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 ?

Well, the problem does not come for the applications themselves, but 
rather from the Debian maintainers who will probably want to get rid of 
OSS in their packages in the future. They will probably build them with 
--without-oss, and if a library exists in both OSS and alsa version, 
they will probably ask to remove the OSS version from the archive.

Bye,
Aurelien

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