Now this is funny! When I first reported this bug (and that was long before 8.04 was released) and put my point that, being incompatible and buggy, PulseAudio should not be included in an LTS (!!!) release, I was told that PulseAudio was The Future Of Linux Sound, and incompatibility was not the problem of PulseAudio, but the problem of that incompatible old software, and we should include PulseAudio in the release a.s.a.p., so as to encourage everybody to make their code compatible and migrate to PulseAudio.
Now we are told that an obvious and working fix for the bug cannot be accepted because it breaks compatibility with Kubuntu and Xubuntu, which are not using PulseAudio. Mind you, both Kubuntu and Xubuntu are officially approved and supported Ubuntu variants, and — despite the Ubuntu policy of including PulseAudio never minding any problems it may bring, just to encourage everyone else to use it — despite that those two official derivatives do not include it! Personally I must confess that I have completely quit trying to understand what are our intentions and plans on PulseAudio. We purposely break the usability of our LTS release in order to introduce the feature I assume less than 2% of end users would be needing, yet we refuse to fix it for the benefit of the two derivative releases, that are not even LTS, by the way. And despite all that we still assume that Bug #1 can be fixed — with such an attitude to LTS releases! -- Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
