[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 565071] Re: [lucid] Freeze Exception Request: OpenAL minor version bump
Reinhard Tartler
siretart at tauware.de
Sat Apr 17 09:48:22 UTC 2010
yes, this bug is obviously about openal-soft.
I have to admit that I didn't follow the openal package lately in
debian, so I'm not sure I'm really qualified to comment on its
inclusion. However, I do know that openal-soft upstream is fairly
reasonable and cautious with his releases, so I think this is definitly
worth investiaging further.
since we are now in final freeze, I think this needs to go via an SRU
** Package changed: openal (Ubuntu) => openal-soft (Ubuntu)
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[lucid] Freeze Exception Request: OpenAL minor version bump
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565071
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Status in “openal-soft” package in Ubuntu: New
Bug description:
OpenAL upstream has released a new minor version that should be fully backwards compatible: http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
* Fixed playback when the PulseAudio buffer is calculated to be more than 64KB.
* Restored compatibility with some older PulseAudio libs.
* Alternative buffer sizing for PulseAudio, specified using a new config option.
* Improved buffer size calculations, to prevent drastic latency changes when certain properties (such as ALC_FREQUENCY) are modified.
* Added capture support for the PortAudio backend.
* Support for PortAudio under Windows.
* Added support for the format extensions AL_EXT_MULAW, AL_EXT_MULAW_MCFORMATS, and AL_EXT_DOUBLE.
* Support for the new ALC_EXT_thread_local_context extension.
* Improved library load time by delaying backend device probing until needed.
* Updated alext.h to provide EFX tokens and function types.
* Unsupported effects and filters are no longer returned by alGetEnumValue.
* The Wave File Writer device now creates WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE files, to better handle multi-channel and float output.
According to the author, it will be needed for upcoming Wine beta releases. libopenal1 has a handful of rdepends, and I've tested them using a package for the new release (using a simple uupdate) that works perfectly. The rdepends do not need a rebuild.
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