On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 at 10:01:07 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> I've uploaded a delayed/14 NMU for alsa-lib, for
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=589896 (crashes due to
> unloading plugins that are still in use), by backporting a patch from
> upstream. Its diffstat looks like this:
[...]
> 7 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-)
>
> The full patch and the nmudiff are on #589896:
[...]
> If this is too intrusive for squeeze, there are potential workarounds for
> #589896 in either alsa-lib (don't unload plugins whether they're in use or
> not), PortAudio (don't tell ALSA to unload plugins), or OpenAL (forcibly
> disable PortAudio support, since PortAudio is the only backend that actually
> tells ALSA to unload plugins, and isn't incredibly useful on Linux). There are
> more details on the bug.
Hi release team,
Any thoughts on this? The NMU will come out of DELAYED in a couple of days
unless I intervene, so please let me know if I should cancel it and
prepare a package with one of the less intrusive workarounds instead.
Thanks,
S
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