To maintainer of package "audacious"

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Cory K. wrote:

> 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.

Err.. the second update includes a patch by William, so it should be good.

don't know about any broken EQ, never used one since they are useless.

t