PulseAudio integration issues

[Conn]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daniel T Chen says (after I poked him and forwarded him the original
> email, since he's extremely behind on list mails):
> Feel free to forward my thoughts to u-d-d.
>
> I've been away from development for a bit, so I'll chime in here.
>
> WRT 198453, the only piece holding back Kubuntu and Xubuntu is a
> missing merge for the pulse pcm+ctl alsa-plugins source that falls
> back to ALSA if an environment variable internal to PulseAudio isn't
> set.  I'll take some time to put this in an alsa-plugins bzr branch
> for testing.  Several people in #ubuntu-mozillateam/Freenode have
> noticed issues in my bzr branch of alsa-lib.  The aforementioned issue
> goes away with said merge.

That's good to hear. I'm not against this change at all, however, will
this fallback create any additional overhead for systems where
PulseAudio isn't installed?

> WRT 257043, the workaround may be acceptable in the interim, but
> coordination is necessary in #ubuntu-mozillateam to ensure that it's
> not in place unless absolutely necessary.  The packaging itself would
> need to be fixed:  one cannot assume that /etc/adobe can be blown away
> blindly in prerm, and the addition to what should be a conffile should
> not occur in postinst.

I agree absolutely; it was a quick hack in my package as a kind of
"proof of concept" that the configuration file prevents crashes. Just
don't forget that your debdiff attached on the bug doesn't include the
new dependencies for i386 users (I can post an update without the hack
applied).

Many thanks (to both of you) for the informative reply.