On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 16:43 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Hi Jan, > > I saw your plan, <http://gist.github.com/444917>, regarding moving > pulseaudio to the extra repository, and I was curious if it is still > going forward? I'm using PA with KDE myself, and would be happy to > help with anything in order to move the packages to extra. > > I noticed two things about your plan: > > 1) the package pavumeter is listed as out-of-date/obsolete here: > <http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#RelatedSoftware>. So > maybe it is not worth moving it to [extra]? > > 2) In order to make KDE work with PA, "kdemultimedia" and "phonon" > have to be recompiled with PA support turned on. In case PA is > disabled or not installed, the programs degrade nicely to the old > (ALSA) behavior. So no need to maintain separate packages. > > On a side-note, there is currently a bug that causes > Phonon+Gstreamer+PA to misbehave (particularily in Amarok), this is > fixed upstream and everything should work well once gst-good 0.10.24 > has been packaged. > > Cheers, > > Tom I remember that that was previously mentioned as well. Point 1) above is correct. I'm also interested to help (mainly with testing and bug-hunting related stuff) as I use pulseaudio as well. Upstream has not released in a while, but from what I hear on their ML that should happen once the main dev gets back from another project.
