[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 565071] Re: [lucid] SRU: OpenAL minor version bump

[leighman]

Sound seems to work fine for me in chromium-bsu and osmos (installed from .deb) which are listed under apt-cache rdepends libopenal1
Other games like World of Goo are not in the list, but I'm sure use it run fine but maybe they ship their own versions?
Some issues which I'm having which may or may not be related (sorry if not):
Osmos hangs completely including sound after about 30 mins of gameplay quite often - not sure this can be due to sound but sound certainly stops
0AD no longer starts though that's more probably related to upgrading to the 2nd alpha
Chromium-bsu - setting it to widescreen kills sound completely in spotify running in wine, although that is perhaps pulseaudio related?
Sorry if this is a bit nebulous :/

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[lucid] SRU: OpenAL minor version bump
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565071
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Status in “openal-soft” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “openal-soft” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
Status in “openal-soft” source package in Maverick: Fix Released

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.