Re: RFC: dropping alsa-0.5 support
Jordi Mallach wrote:
> There's still alsa-*-0.5 packages around. The question is, do we still
> want them? They are unsupported versions by alsa-project now, and they
> are just collecting bugs. I think 0.9 works more or less ok at this
> point, and 0.5 could be just dropped from Debian.
Yes, that would be good.
> What to do with packages that depend on libasound1, too? Does anyone
> know if alsa-lib 0.5 is source compatible with 0.9?
AFAIK no. But packages which really can't use alsa 0.9
could drop alsa 0.5 support and use OSS instead, without major
drawbacks, I think.
regards, Stefan
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