Re: Sound support on potato

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:12:55PM +0300, Eray Ozkural <exa@ttnet.net.tr> was heard to say:
>    o esd: this program depends on alsa, I know esd's author doesn't care about
> it much. IMHO such programs shouldn't depend on alsa, or any specific sound
> driver. That should be flexible. All gnome packages depend on alsa, so that's
> problematic. If he can't maintain it, some else can. (the author)

bluegreen:~> dlocate -s esound
Package: esound
[snip]
Depends: libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), esound-common

bluegreen:~> dlocate -s libesd0
Package: libesd0
[snip]
Depends: libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), esound-common

  I may be confused, but that doesn't look to me like it requires alsa.

> Is it a custom to make obsolete software to go in the "stable" version?

  Yes.  (hopefully a custom which will change someday, but..)

  Daniel

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