[pkg-wine-party] 1.4: Obsolete sound backends, questions

Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com
Mon May 21 00:26:49 UTC 2012


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> 1. Upstream no longer supports NAS, Esound, Jack, I propose to remove
>   the corresponding binary packages.

Seems appropriate.

> 2. oss4-dev is now needed for building the contents of libwine-oss.
>   Adding it is an easy fix.
>
>   One could argue that for libwine-oss should be removed for linux-*
>   architectures as well and only be kept for kfreebsd-*. While it is
>   the default sound driver in the FreeBSD kernel, OSS4 is not part of
>   the Linux kernel (though it is available as a DKMS module).

It does no harm to keep it around on linux, and it looks like you're
proposing to keep it with the added the oss4-dev build dependency
anyway.

> 3. Support for GStreamer has been added upstream. What should be done
>   about that?

Lets add a package to support it.

Best wishes,
Mike



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