Re: Replace OpenAL with OpenAL Soft

[Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 3:33:33 pm Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 23.04.2008, 14:52 -0400 schrieb Andres Mejia:
> > I've tested warsow, glest, and supertuxkart with the new openal soft
> > libraries and they all build and run on the new libraries without any
> > problems. I
>
> that's good to hear, that some packages build out of the box! i didn't
> expect that, as OpenAL shipped some openal-config and pkg-config files,
> which OpenAL Soft doesn't.

I left a pkgconfig file in the debian dir and it's installed from there.

> > really think that OpenAL Soft should be packaged as just "openal". We
> > should upload a package to experimental first and do some more testing.
>
> i disagree here, because i don't feel well about mangling down a
> project's name to the name of another project which caused a lot of pain
> in the past years.

This shouldn't be a problem. The upstream maintainer chose to name the 
library "openal" anyways. "openal-soft" is just the name he gave to the 
project.

> packaging it for experimental sounds good to me, let's hope this
> alternative implementation won't cause any or too much trouble! :)
>
> cheers - fuddl



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Regards,
Andres