Pulse Audio 0.9.8 - upgrade?

[Christopher Brown]

On 10/01/2008, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 12:37 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote:
> > On 10/01/2008, Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 00:44 +0000, Christopher Brown wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > (off-list)
> > > Which of the bugs you reported against pulseaudio in bugzilla are fixed
> > > by the new release?
> >
> > (on-list)
> > I have not reported any bugs against pulseaudio so I have none which
> > the new release fixes. However:
> >
> > http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.8
> >
> > gives some good reasons to upgrade. This is more than just "a change
> > of one digit in a version number". In any event my comment related not
> > just to pulseaudio but to Fedora as a whole. Point releases reflect
> > bug fixes - usually - and so upgrading to resolve outstanding bugs is
> > something that I and many users no doubt will applaud. You are not
> > forced to accept these upgrades.
>
> Pardon me, but I only see mostly reasons not to upgrade a stable
> release, such as "Rework ALSA surround sound configuration completely",
> etc.

0.9.8 _is_ a stable release. Do you therefore consider pulseaudio to
be stable? I do not and judging from some of the comment threads I
have read neither do a few others.

-- 
Christopher Brown

http://www.chruz.com