Pulse Audio 0.9.8 - upgrade?
Lennart Poettering
mzerqung at 0pointer.de
Sun Jan 13 01:20:14 UTC 2008
On Thu, 10.01.08 22:07, Warren Togami (wtogami at redhat.com) wrote:
> Does upgrading from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8 break library ABI with applications
> already linked against any pulseaudio library? If not, we should really
> explore the possibility of upgrading to a newer pulseaudio version in
> Fedora 8.
ABI is stable in all 0.9.x versions.
> Later when the test users agree that the pulseaudio package in your test
> repository is seemingly good, it can be pushed to F8's updates-testing
> repository where many thousands of other users who opt-in to that optional
> channel will be exposed to it. It can be tested there for a while before
> pushing to the public in the stable updates channel. This multi-layered
> approach to testing should ensure that the update is of higher quality than
> the current F8 pulseaudio.
>
> Pulseaudio made many applications that used to be stable suddenly
> unreliable. Apps like pidgin, mplayer, xine, Adobe Flash Player and
> many
Uh, don't get me started on Flash.
> more now have weird pulseaudio related crash issues. There is a desire to
> pull in newer pulseaudio versions if bugs are fixed to make it more stable.
>
> Please let us explore the feasibility of upgrading it in F8?
I will put a copy of 0.9.8 in updates-testing.
Lennart
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