Re: Releasability of the kFreeBSD ports
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 07:52:52PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * ALSA: Many ALSA dependent packages not working/building/available.
> (There is a limited emulation layer called SALSA, but either many
> packages don't work with it or nobody tried to get them working with
> it. Not sure how many unfixed bugs because of this are still open.)
>
A lot of the packages have OSS support (with BTW is a lot better on
FreeBSD than it uses to be on Linux). We definitely shoudl try to avoid
this emulation layer when possible, as it is limited and often introduce
bugs.
[...]
> Some smaller issues I noticed only happening on kfreebsd, but haven't
> tracked them down (probably no bug report yet either, partially also
> affects servers):
>
> * Emacs 23 via remote X doesn't work. No idea why yet.
>
> * aptitude segfaults approximately every second or third call. (That's
> much better than months ago where I was used to start aptitude with
> "until aptitude; do sleep 0.1; done")
The problem with this kind of issues is that we are now aware of it.
Personally I don't use emacs and aptitude works perfectly on my machine
since the crash issue has been fixed.
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