To maintainer of package "audacious"

Cory K. coryisatm at ubuntu.com
Tue May 6 23:22:23 BST 2008


Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Martin Olsson wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe that it could be useful to change the default output plugin
>> for audacious from "ALSA" to "PulseAudio". Doing this could help new
>> users avoid bug 226631 in launchpad (see discussion in that bug):
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/226631
>>
>> Audacious has supported pulseaudio output since 1.2.0 and on the
>> PulseAudio webpage their developers recommend using the PulseAudio
>> output plugin instead of the ALSA one for boxes which have PulseAudio:
>> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
>>     
>
> A fix has been uploaded to Intrepid, and will soon be in hardy-proposed 
> too.
>
> t
>   

So we ignore the upstream maintainer? http://nenoblog.net/?p=4

If *all* this update does is switches the default sound server (note
upstream maintainer thinks this is a bad idea) I don't think we should
bother. If it includes fixes for things like the broken EQ then sure.

-Cory \m/



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