Bug#483179: marked as done (PTS: please link to Ubuntu Launchpad bugs page)

2008-06-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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2008-06-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am Mo den 16. Jun 2008 um 6:25 schrieb Martin Pitt: > esound should *so much* die completely. It has very poor sound quality I cannot prove that. Its sound quality is much better than the one of ALSA direct. (Well esd on top of OSS. It is not th

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi Klaus, Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 10:12 +0100]: > I cannot prove that. Its sound quality is much better than the one of > ALSA direct. (Well esd on top of OSS. It is not that good than with OSS > direct but it is ok.) Hm, that rather sounds like for your card the OSS driver is much better than t

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Martin, Am Di den 17. Jun 2008 um 11:50 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 10:12 +0100]: > > I cannot prove that. Its sound quality is much better than the one of > > ALSA direct. (Well esd on top of OSS. It is not that good than wit

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Martin Pitt
Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 14:06 +0100]: > > The alternative to esound is not really ALSA, but rather pulseaudio. > > Is pulsaudio supported by applications like wine for example? Do > pulsaudio work on top of OSS? pulseaudio provides an esound ABI compatibility layer, thus it's a drop-in replaceme

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Loïc Minier
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008, Martin Pitt wrote: > That's interesting indeed! So you avoid that by using an OSS driver > instead of the ALSA one? I can really not imagine how esound on top of > a broken ALSA driver would sound better than just using the ALSA > output directly? It might normalize which sa

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 17 juin 2008 à 14:06 +0100, Klaus Ethgen a écrit : > OSS: Works well. > OSS<-ESD: Works well too. > ALSA: The problems above. > ALSA<-ESD: I never really tested. Last time I checked, libesd-alsa0 was still completely unusable (well, except for some weird kind of sound-based torture). --

[RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
Hi, we have had a little trouble with our sf redirector a while back (i.e. the sf mirror was down) and it is really annoying. Anyhow, I noticed that there are now direct links with http 302 redirection towards a mirror, without the ugly selection page! example: [not wrapped at 80 columns, sorry]

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Paul Wise
I found a while back that this URL redirects to the files page: http://sf.net/projects/foo/files Slightly more readable than the URL you used. Downside is the extra redirects (sf->sourceforge, files->showfiles.php). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:07:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I found a while back that this URL redirects to the files page: > > http://sf.net/projects/foo/files > > Slightly more readable than the URL you used. Thanks, this avoids the group_id search, so the audacity case can be trimmed to: ve

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:12:52AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: Am Mo den 16. Jun 2008 um 6:25 schrieb Martin Pitt: very poor code quality That might be. But that's a problem of many gnome applications. To be quite honest, I've seen the code for esd, and it is terrible. In fact, worse than al

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Filippo, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > we have had a little trouble with our sf redirector a while back (i.e. the > sf mirror was down) and it is really annoying. > Anyhow, I noticed that there are now direct links with http 302 redirection > towards a mirror, without the ugly selection page! Is i

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:24 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:07:01AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I found a while back that this URL redirects to the files page: > > > > http://sf.net/projects/foo/files > > > > Slightly more readable than the URL you used. > > Thanks,

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Sam Morris
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:44:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Last time I checked, libesd-alsa0 was still completely unusable (well, > except for some weird kind of sound-based torture). I regularly help users to find out why their sound has stopped working, and the cause is usually due to libes

Re: [RFC] fixing sourceforge watch files

2008-06-17 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 07:11:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > *dons devscripts maintainer hat* > fwiw, if I were applying this change at the moment, it would be likely > to be commited as per the attached. > *removes hat* > > Thomas has a reasonable point though; it would be good not to break