[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#766914: closed by Amaya <amaya at debian.org> (Re: Bug#766914: base: audio group should not be default for users)

[Kaj Ailomaa]

Hi.

On closing the bug report. What is the Debian policy on the usage of
audio group exactly? I have been unable to find anything in writing.
And, I did not want to impose a Ubuntu policy. I was just referring to
the information on the wiki page for reasons to not use audio group for
users, while putting up the question whether should Debian use it or
not. 

Also, since audio group is also used for realtime privilege (which is
not really related to audio directly), perhaps the reasons for using the
group would need to be examined, as well as determining whether it would
be better to use another group for jack.

I did start a discussion on debian-devel about this.

I would also like to emphasize that this is an important issue for a
great many users, and that a better policy on using the jack server
could have a lot of positive effects on the entire Linux audio world in
the longer perspective. This is also the main reason for my bug report.

Cheers

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 09:21 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the base package:
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> #766914: base: audio group should not be default for users
> 
> It has been closed by Amaya <amaya at debian.org>.
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