Re: Release goal: stop using /dev/dsp on Linux

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:58:22AM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:

> While we are at it, we could eliminate some other legacy sound systems.
> The key goal is to have a more reliably working sound in debian.  When
> there are less sounds systems to choose from, it is less likely that
> users try to use the wrong one or applications autochoose the wrong one.

This sounds like an interesting project but it should be pretty much
orthogonal to the kernel level interfaces so it seems like it'd be
better to handle it as a separate release goal (possibly one per thing
to be removed, even).