Bug#449037: RFP: libflashsupport -- audio support wrapper for non-free Flash plugin

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

retitle 449037 ITP: libflashsupport -- audio support wrapper for non-free Flash plugin
thanks

[CJ van den Berg]
> Hi Petter,

Hi.

> There is a fully working Debian package available from the Debian
> PulseAudio packaging team at:
> http://pkg-pulseaudio.alioth.debian.org/

Oh.  That would have been nice to know.  I already loaded a
libflashsupport package into unstable.  It is waiting in NEW.  A copy
of the etch backport of that package is available from
<URL:http://user.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/packages/etch/libflashsupport_0.0.svn2431-0.0.edu.etch.1.dsc>.

> The package is called flashplugin-nonfree-pulse to better fit Debian
> policy.

Right, perhaps it should be renamed.  I want to use it with esd, so
the pulse postfix is a bit misleading.  What about
flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound instead?  The deps of your proposed
package is very tied to pulse audio.  I believe this is a bad idea, as
I need it for esd, and it could help those needing OSS too.

> Sorry about the lack of an ITP.

It would have helped me a bit, yes. :)

> It's currently under review for upload by Sjoerd Simons, but
> motivation is pretty thin, so you are welcome to join in.

I want it uploaded today, so if we can meet on IRC to discuss it, I am
very interested.  I am pere on irc.debian.org, for example in
#debian-edu.

> And to answer your question, this package will quite definitely
> enable sound for flash on thin clients. I use this all the time.

Good to hear.  I got some help testing it with LTSP in etch (esd), and
it worked great there.:)

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen