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libao package

libao.conf in gutsy is wrong. (alsa09 is set as default)

Bug #164899 reported by Stephan Rügamer
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Bug Description

Dear Colleagues,

/etc/libao.conf in gutsy defaults to alsa09...which was changed to alsa.
This change was correct, because alsa09 is wrong and noone is able to use one of the 27 rdepends of libao2.

e.g. ogg123 tries arts as default device and not alsa in gutsy.

this is a severe regression, as discussed on irc.

Regards,

\sh

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Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer) wrote :

Ok some more informations for this bugreport.

Right now, we have 27 apps which are using libao2 as dependency.
Most of them have no fallback solution....

As an example, mpg321 uses libao2...with the wrong /etc/libao.conf, it tries to use e.g. arts, when kubuntu-desktop is installed.
Which doesn't work properly, because we don't use arts for kde anymore, it seems.

This is just for your FYI

\sh

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Emmet Hikory (persia) wrote :

Looking through the rdepends, the following applications do not appear to have a supplementary dependency on another sound library: waon, shell-fm, pytone (and likely other python-pyao rdeps), mpg321, mpc123, liquidsoap (unless you count icecast as a fallback), possibly libao-ruby1.8 clients, possibly libao-ocaml clients, gnomoradio, flac123, d4x, aldo, cdrdao

So, of the 27 affected applications, at least 11 do not appear capable of sound output with the current /etc/libao.conf

Changed in libao:
status: New → Confirmed
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Changed in libao:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Greg A (etulfetulf) wrote :

Fix synced from Debian since Ubuntu Hardy.

Changed in libao:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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