tags 592411 + confirmed thanks Dear Sam,
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:43:47PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > Package: festival > Version: 1:2.0.95~beta-2 > Severity: wishlist > > I like to avoid installing oss-compat since the OSS emulation done by > ALSA is imperfect and causes problems when two programs want to use the > sound card at once. > > If you make festival Recommend oss-compat then it will still be pulled > in by default, but weird people like me will be able to configure it to > use ALSA (kind of) by setting Audio_Method to Audio_Command. This is a valid point. Since I seldom bothered to configure it without OSS, I did not come across this. I am interested in moving oss-compat to "Recommends", but this would require a freeze exception. I shall, therefore, consult the release team before going ahead with an upload for this purpose. Thanks! Kumar -- The wise man warns me that life is but a dewdrop on the lotus leaf. - Rabindranath Tagore (The Gardener, 1915) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
