[gentoo-dev] News item: media-sound/pulseffects "renaming"

[Marek Szuba]

Officially the new name has only been in effect since version 6.0.0 but having discussed this with prometheanfire on IRC, it makes sense to extend the new name to >=5.0.0 - that way people not interested in switching from plain PulseAudio to PipeWire can continue to use v4 (which according to upstream is now in maintenance mode, i.e. hasn't been EOLed yet) without having to mask v5 ebuilds.

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Title: PipeWire versions of PulseEffects are now media-sound/easyeffects
Author: Marek Szuba <mare...@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2021-07-16
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0



media-sound/easyeffects is already available in the tree, and all the
PipeWire-dependent ebuilds of media-sound/pulseeffects will be removed



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Marecki

It 7 days feels like a reasonable time to wait before dropping media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.4 from the tree because this news item will continue to display for affected users even after the ebuild is gone, won't it. In response to the upstream decision to rename PulseEffects to EasyEffects we have decided to adopt the new name for versions only supporting media-video/pipewire while retaining the old one for versions allowing the use of media-sound/pulseaudio. in 7 days. Therefore, users of >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0 are asked to emerge media-sound/easyeffects instead.

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