Pulse Audio 0.9.8 - upgrade?

[Christopher Brown]

On 09/01/2008, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:46 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > On 1/9/08, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:20:46 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I saw that Pulse Audio 0.9.8 got released two months ago:
> > > > http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.8
> > > > and I see on my Fedora 8 that we still have 0.9.7
> > > >
> > > > $ pulseaudio --version
> > > > pulseaudio 0.9.7
> > > >
> > > > Will there be an upgrade soon on Fedora 8 to Pulse Audio 0.9.8?
> > > >
> > > > Lost of issues have been fixed in new Pulse Audio so users like me who
> > > > have issues with Pulse Audio would appreciate the much needed upgrade.
> > >
> > > I'm sure the person who maintains the Fedora packages is aware of that. :)
> > > Just notice the connection between Pulse Audio and Red Hat.
> >
> > I'm sure he is aware of that but I am not - that is why I wrote this email.
>
> I know the answer -- He decided to save us from an useless upgrade that
> would solve none of our problems. This applies for all package
> maintainers who value bandwidth and time of the users more than a change
> of one digit in a version number -- my thanks to them.

That is perhaps one view. Then there will be the people who are
running pulseaudio for the first time because it is in Fedora for the
first time, reporting bugs, these get resolved and then pushed out to
those users who have their bugs fixed and don't give up on Fedora.

-- 
Christopher Brown

http://www.chruz.com