d. Consumer writable DVD media does not
allow you to write the disc keys, so you cannot make a simple copy
that is readable by an authorised DVD player.
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or ia64? AFAIK we no longer have any support
for IA-32 emulation: hardware emulation was removed (since Montecito),
the kernel support bitrotted (prior to 2.6.32) and has been removed
(2.6.34), and the software emulator is non-free.
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On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 18:37 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ben Hutchings writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 14:56 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > [...]
> >> FYI: Since I have recieved no objections from ftp-master nor the release
> >> team
h programs remains.
Can like this be generalised to dedupe web servers, window managers and
init systems?
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://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-run.html
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-run.html
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dir-or-file-in-var-lock.html
[...]
Seems like these should be added to ftp-master autorejects.
should not be sent to the maintainer address, not to
some general mailing list. (The maintainer address may itself be a
mailing list, but if the maintainer(s) no longer read mail sent to it
then that's a further reason to orphan/salvage the package!)
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:58:54PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:47:52PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> [...]
> > All the pings in the world won't help if you are sending them via
> > a path that discards them. I know several large US
7;noopt' won't hide
the bug? Also, gdb and the GNU toolchain have recently got a lot better
at handling highly optimised code (tracking variables in registers,
treating inlined functions as logically separate functions, etc.).
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is not a typo; this
would actually affect both v4 and v6.)
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On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 18:29 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ben Hutchings [2012.11.03.1515 +0100]:
> > int one = 1;
> > setsockopt(sock, IPPROTO_IP, IP_FREEBIND, &one, sizeof(one));
> > bind(sock, ...);
> >
> > Or we set the net.ipv4.
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 19:35 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> ❦ 3 novembre 2012 15:15 CET, Ben Hutchings :
>
> >> I can now disable DAD, or insert "sleep 10" at the top of
> >> /etc/init.d/unbound, but neither is an acceptable solution.
> >>
> >&g
Don't feed the troll.
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On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 01:56 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:30:00PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Don't feed the troll.
> It's not trolling.
> It's a honest list of problems which a lot of developers don't view as
> problems
aris
provide the options IP_{RECVDST,SENDSRC}ADDR. This lack of portability
may explain why more applications have not adopted this approach yet.
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eself up
> onto a netlink socket from userspace.
Right, you must use rtnetlink. But that is no more portable than using
socket options to reflect addresses for UDP.
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> packages as a recommendation of the firmware-linux-nonfree package.
...which is that dpkg does not support architecture-specific relations
in binary packages.
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On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 02:35 +0200, Adrian Fita wrote:
> On 08/11/12 01:44, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >> On Wed, 07 Nov 2012, Adrian Fita wrote:
> >>> Fair enough, but how about having the
nd.
[...]
The compat layer for x32 is almost entirely the same as for i386 on
x86_64; indeed it is almost entirely the same as Linux uses for *every*
64-bit architecture that supports a 32-bit userland. I think the only
interesting difference is that x32 has 64-bit time_t.
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On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 22:53 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at
I don't know why you think this is relevant to debian-devel, but have
fun. (And please don't ask anyone to package anything in this format.)
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with udev
> 195 anymore.
I believe the regression (removal of support for firmware loading
during module loading) has been fixed. However, the udev developers
*knew in advance* that this would be a problem, reported such uses
of firmware loading as being driver bugs. They then went ahead and
cha
hat never affected you and wasn't fixed for a whole 2 days.
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On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 11:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 11/15/2012 10:07 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 01:11:32AM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > [...]
> >> So systems which put additional logic in PID 1 are going to increase
> >> the
e.g. kernel versions?
> E.g. at lest the minimal version available _across_ all architectures?
The minimum version should be whatever is in stable, i.e. 2.6.32. This
is also the minimum version it needs to run on (think partial upgrades).
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This 'crap' is far easier for humans to edit (without specialised
tools). And *that* is most certainly in the spirit of Unix, even if
this particular format is most widely used by some parts of Windows.
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to keep the readability).
>
> So to keep everyone equally happy, we need:
>
>
>
>
>
> Structure _and_ readability.
Should be more like:
- item: |
Structure, readability *and* flexibility.
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v *was*, originally. Now it's a daemon that performs
more or less arbitrary actions when various events are reported by the
kernel. Which is more or less what a modern init system does, only
restricted to a particular type of event. It makes a fair
fs, I mean (1) the packages
don't depend on initramfs-tools | linux-initramfs-tool (2) the kernel
images have various filesystems and drivers built-in that would
normally be modular.
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the good one.
debian-kernel is the specific list for our Linux kernel packages.
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ut actually it's deliberately incompatible?
Is it that hard to think of a new name?
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installer or debootstrap the installation, which is far from ideal.
[...]
The correct list for discussing the installer is
debian-b...@lists.debian.org
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consider
> backporting that patch (if it even makes sense) to 3.2; Ben will
> probably answer this point, otherwise you can reach kernel maintainers
> at .
[...]
This went into 3.2.35.
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processors, which continue to be supported by the
i915/intel kernel/Xorg/libdrm/Mesa drivers.
For Atom SoCs and chipsets, Intel has long used the PowerVR GPUs
designed by Imagination, which the latter considers to be Valuable
Intellectual Property. However, I think everything aside from the
act
he ia32-libs-* metapackages are transitional, this is
due to become even more difficult in jessie. I think it's a mistake
to remove well-known and useful metapackages, and they should be
retained. However they should probably be moved into tasksel once the
installer is multiarch-aware.
Ben.
-
en though
> what it mandates is ancient.
The problem to be solved is that ISVs provide binaries for Linux i386
and our users want to run them on amd64. LSB, x32 and ARM are
completely irrelevant - the important thing is to make it easy to
install whatever libraries those ISVs depend on.
Ben
On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 13:03 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:49PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > dpkg --add-architecture i386
> > apt-get update
> >
> > The installer doesn't AFAIK provide even the option to do this. (The
>
er… a switch like Doko’s is
> more correct because, in the M-A case, it’s all about *not* needing
> to specify the architecture in some file. It’s just divined from
> the current compiler configuration. I think it has some merit.
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to crash. This
> is because pydoc imports all packages in order to find out what
> modules they contain.
[...]
I'm surprised that doesn't result in disaster more often...
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A. I don'
This is presumably a kernel bug. I'm going to assume you're using the
current version in testing/unstable, which is 3.2.35-2.
Could you try the test packages referred to from
<http://bugs.debian.org/687442#131>? I can't promise they will make any
difference but they migh
le: debian/changelog
> 2009 Paul Sladen
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ng", we
> could use "BU".
[...]
Or 'source', short for 'the build-dependency's source code should be
treated as part of my source code'. This is already reserved as a
special architecture name for use in changes file.
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On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 20:51 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Or 'source', short for 'the build-dependency's source code should be
> > treated as part of my source code'. This is already reserved as a
> > special architecture n
you read the list of bets you may see his point:
http://wiki.debian.org/70thBugContest
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be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to
our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the
Atheros developers and you or they could prepare a patch for
linux-firmware.git? I recently added carl9170, which may be a useful
example to follow.
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On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 11:13 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:15:20 +
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > This should be added to the linux-firmware.git repository and then to
> > our firmware-free source package. Perhaps you could talk to the
> > Atheros de
lieve this is
allowed in Debian, nor do I have time for that. But if you want to
fight that battle, you are welcome, and I'll be happy to build
firmware-free using those packages.
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a weak point at present. It's surprisingly slow even on fast computers,
and can be painfully so on old/low-end machines.
But to benefit the most number of users, I think you will need to work
on merging these improvements back into the original libapt.
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>
> I'll try to calm down in future ;)
Please do.
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These might usefully be further divided into truly Debian-specific and
dpkg/apt-specific, at least in binary packages.
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On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:41 +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 31.03.2013, 00:13 + schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > On Sat, 2013-03-30 at 22:49 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > devscripts ships a bunch of scripts to make the life
it doesn't,
> and probably shouldn't.
Right.
Since it can be useful on other distributions, it might make sense to
call it, say, 'debbugs-control', and then install an alias (symlink)
to 'bts' when the package is built for Debian (checked using
dpkg-vendor).
Ben.
trace on the relevant bug report.
[...]
Since you took so long to get to the point in that message, it's
possible that your message was incorrectly identified as spam.
Or this may just be an accident in processing of incoming mail, which
has occasionally occurred.
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s in /etc/fstab.
3. Running 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-base' did not change these device
names, as expected (it should only touch IDE and SCSI device names).
So it seems that this is only going to be an issue if users take the
unusual step of changing /etc/fstab to refer to LVs by UUID. But
e Debian wiki makes it seem like it is a good
> idea to use it and makes no warning about the LVM snapshot issue:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/fstab#UUIDs
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Part-UUID
>
> so maybe it would be good if somebody who knows this issue in more depth
> than myself was to update that.
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untries have similar laws
The DMCA 'safe harbor' rules are comparatively *good* for service
providers, though not so much for service users that have enemies.
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go because it had too many issues.
No, it's this:
http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Safe-2.35/Safe.pm
(I seem to remember using a very early version of this, which was the
only way to run a CGI script in my web space at university. It was
definitely very restricted, but then I wasn'
> rental sign to any site you visit.
Debian is not Windows. We have separate packages for the JRE and the
browser plugin.
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This is more of a topic for debian-project or even debian-curiosa.
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should be included in an early kernel update
for wheezy. This was confirmed to fix bug #704933.
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om [3]):
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He also says that he is treating his libjpeg as 'reference code' for
JPEG, i.e. for demonstrating and testing extensions to the JPEG
standard. This does not sound like production code or a suitable
substitute for the established libjpeg which supported JFIF and little
else (i.e. everything that's in common use) and had a very stable API
for that. Maybe when the ink is dry on JPEG 201x then we will want a
new libjpeg (perhaps an entirely separate library) that supports it.
But we don't need it now.
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be added in either libjpeg-turbo or the applications that want it.
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would be better for most users (not so nice for others).
(Incidentally, arch:all packages generating arch-specific data have
interesting interactions with multi-arch. I doubt many people with
multi-arch systems would want this package to generate multiple
version
On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 10:13 +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
> Dear Ben!
>
> On 27/04/13 00:46, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > However, I would expect the vast majority of installations to be on
> > amd64, so if you always generate a 64-bit little-endian database
> >
That's why I think maintainers should not only build in pbuilders and
> cowbuilders, but give their packages some actual testing.
Actual testing of Debian means auto-building and testing the resulting
binaries. Anything else is secondary, though it is certainly very
irritating when packages
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:14:23AM -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> On 2013-04-22 19:40:01 EDT, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 18:21 -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> >> Is anyone else seeing a boot hangup on wheezy with the linux/3.2.41-2
> >> kernel
&g
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 15:03 -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> On 2013-05-07 13:20:02 EDT, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 11:14:23AM -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> >> 1) This bug is a month old and due to a Debian patch which was rejected
> >>
check this in advance.
Sorry about that.
If there are particular changes that cause a lot of breakage, they could
be reverted temporarily.
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of those bugs may be security vulnerabilities - not just in the
kernel, but in userland (think of seccomp mode 2 filters). To me, the
benefit of adding x32 seems so vanishingly small that it doesn't yet
outweigh that concern.
> You do have a point about adding new multilibs instead of m
on the front page of www.debian.org
refers to 'Debian 7.0' (with 'wheezy' as a secondary identifier in
one place).
All our formal documentation should identify stable releases by number
and then optionally by codename. For the testing suite (i.e. pre-
es.
> linux-image-*-amd64-dbg, compressed size 250MiB, takes 20-30 minutes to
> compress on an 61xx Opteron.
[...]
Yes, it takes about as long as the compilation (depending on number of
cores) because compression is not parallelised. It still seems
worthwhile when the debug info is so large, b
ong time, but there is no race condition in the running system. (And
the initramfs changes to mount /usr could conceivably include recovering
from missing symlinks in /.)
Ben.
> And now you have space in /boot for a 150 MB grml-small rescue image!
>
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On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:45:55PM +0200, Mailbox wrote:
> Hello Developer Group,
>
> can someone explain what is happen on line one from this listing?
[...]
This is off-topic; you should ask on the debian-user list or other
support channel.
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.6). I think that a dependency on
'gcc-4.6 | gcc-4.6:i386' might fix that, but what would britney think of
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r or worse.
> Well, worse.
I don't think that's fair. It's not udev itself, but the increasing
number of things that may be hooked into device events.
[...]
> How are those udev replacement projects coming along? Something else
> to think about for jessie.
Apparentl
> using Loongson 2E for buildds and porters machines, which are not
> affected by this issue.
They are affected by that or a very similar issue, as demonstrated by Jo
Shields recently: http://apebox.org/wordpress/rants/545/
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On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:12 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 01:57:39PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 09:22 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > Some precision about the MIPS machines:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 28, 201
should be able to test this with a private APT repository. Though
this must have been done before, so someone should be able to answer
from experience.
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> #!/bin/bash script without depending on bash.
What if I want to use bash features in a preinst script?
The idea of making bash non-essential seems like pure busy-work; the
vast majority of Debian systems will continue to have it installed and
it will just result in a st
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 11:54 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 07:07:54PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 16:06 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:22:27 -0800, Steve Langasek
> > > wrote:
> > > >O
nth back about how a Xen host could detect and
run a Xen-aware GRUB in domU automatically (with pv-grub as a
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an either OpenSSL or GnuTLS, although it's getting better.
The free software world desparately needs a permissively licenced TLS
library with sane default behaviour. OpenSSL or GnuTLS seem to have
failed us on both grounds, and I hope interested developers will
cooperate with the Fedora develope
d ask
> that you suggest why you think there should be a default, and why you
> think that "MySQL" should not be the default "MySQL".
Similarly,
wodim is not cdrecord
LibreOffice is not OpenOffice.org
Iceweasel is not Firefox
etc.
so clearly we should never have impl
ong as there are
> parties available to maintain them. Percona Server will also be arriving
> soon, and now I see talk of Galera enabled MySQL variants as well.
This strikes me as an incredibly bad idea. There will be four times the
security issues to fix, more work for maintainers of dependent
that.
[...]
The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries
can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required
cross-compilers are packaged in Debian.
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On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 08:11 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
> > The firmware-linux-free maintainer has verified that identical binaries
> > can be built from source, but as you well know not all of the required
> > cross-c
modules (well, libs
> with a smaller sub-version number). With debian 6 using a 3.x kernel,
> *the same* happens as I described here for debian 7.
[...]
You are also using a new version of the nvidia driver with this
kernel...
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On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 17:13 -0600, Kathleen Spence wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Just wondering if there was any chance that pulseaudio could be
> removed from trunk (any debain dist) and just go back to basic known
> working good alsa?
Don't feed the troll!
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On Sun, 2013-12-29 at 01:57 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote:
>
> On 28.12.2013 23:46, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-12-28 at 19:52 -0100, René Kuligowski wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Adrian,
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for your quick answe
tely
> forbidden to link with it, even indirectly.
[...]
I think this is an absurd interpretation. It is certainly not being
applied to linux-tools, where we have perf linked against libpython
linked against OpenSSL.
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tart crashing
> randomly.
I seriously doubt that. I think that part of the Intel graphics stack
(could be userland or kernel) used ENOSPC to indicate that some GPU
resource was exhausted.
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ry storage and communication medium is subject to errors
and manufacturers must do some statistical analysis to validate that the
uncorrectable error rate is not too high. NAND flash just has an
unusually high 'raw' error rate.
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libunwind8
involves a very large number of source packages.
What this means in practice is that libunwind8 cannot transition to
testing at least until ia64 is officially removed as a release
architecture. For now, make sure you build with libunwind7-dev.
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solution, as it leaves libfile-rename-perl
auto-removable after the following release.
(Note that this isn't a problem for transitional packages, because APT
does not mark dependencies of packages in section 'oldlibs' as
auto-installed.)
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ocess exits
> may not be attributed correctly, because journald can't read the extended
> credentials (like the cgroup the process is in) from /proc any more.
Well, there is a proposal to add that to SCM_CREDENTIALS or another
auxiliary message that can be received through the s
vice when, in fact, they use PulseAudio.
>
> These show up as ALSA in the "Applications" tab in the PA sound
> preferences during playback.
>
> It might be sensible to add a global asound.conf in /etc/ to resolve
> this issue for every ALSA-only application.
Yes, this really should be present by default.
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libasound2-plugins, which contains the
pulseaudio plugins and others.
So maybe the necessary change would be:
- move the pulseaudio ALSA plugins and this config file into a new
binary package
- rename the config file so it's not just an example
- make pulseaudio recommend that binary packag
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