On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Conn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Daniel T Chen says (after I poked him and forwarded him the original >> email, since he's extremely behind on list mails): >> Feel free to forward my thoughts to u-d-d. >> >> I've been away from development for a bit, so I'll chime in here. >> >> WRT 198453, the only piece holding back Kubuntu and Xubuntu is a >> missing merge for the pulse pcm+ctl alsa-plugins source that falls >> back to ALSA if an environment variable internal to PulseAudio isn't >> set. I'll take some time to put this in an alsa-plugins bzr branch >> for testing. Several people in #ubuntu-mozillateam/Freenode have >> noticed issues in my bzr branch of alsa-lib. The aforementioned issue >> goes away with said merge. > > That's good to hear. I'm not against this change at all, however, will > this fallback create any additional overhead for systems where > PulseAudio isn't installed?
Dan says: The overhead is the cost of the lookup (existence, setting) of an environment variable. In all but the most absurd configurations, said cost is, for all intents and purposes, a non-issue. >> WRT 257043, the workaround may be acceptable in the interim, but >> coordination is necessary in #ubuntu-mozillateam to ensure that it's >> not in place unless absolutely necessary. The packaging itself would >> need to be fixed: one cannot assume that /etc/adobe can be blown away >> blindly in prerm, and the addition to what should be a conffile should >> not occur in postinst. > > I agree absolutely; it was a quick hack in my package as a kind of > "proof of concept" that the configuration file prevents crashes. Just > don't forget that your debdiff attached on the bug doesn't include the > new dependencies for i386 users (I can post an update without the hack > applied). Dan says: Yes, the additional dependencies are necessary for the flashplugin-nonfree source package. What has not been determined is how they will spill over into ia32-libs source (I mentioned briefly in the previous e-mail). -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
