[pkg-wine-party] Bug#528264: Bug#528264: Bug#528264: wine: Support PulseAudio as a sound backend

[Nuutti Kotivuori]

Ove Kaaven <ovek at arcticnet.no> writes:
> Sven Arvidsson skrev:
>> I understand the extra hassle of carrying the patch, let's just hope it
>> will get merged upstream sooner or later.
>> 
>> Feel free to close the bug report, or perhaps tag it wontfix for now?
>
> Good news. I've packaged up winepulse as a separate, unofficial package.
> Keeping it separate avoids the hassle of having a patch in the Debian
> Wine packages, although it obviously won't be quite as integrated. It
> must be configured manually, but I've left instructions in the package.
>
> It's at my repository at http://people.debian.org/~ovek/wine/ (but
> depends on wine-unstable packages that's also only available from there,
> until those finally get accepted into sid (the wine-unstable packages
> that is, not winepulse)).
>
> I don't use pulseaudio myself, so let me know if it works.

I tried this unofficial package.

For some reason, it installs its files in
/usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu/wine. When I moved the winepulse.drv.so in to
/usr/lib/wine, the package started working perfectly, by the
instructions in README.Debian.

-- Naked