On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 01:01 +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > > * * * > > > Title: PipeWire versions of PulseEffects are now media-sound/easyeffects
<ulm mode>The title is too long (50 chars max AFAIR)</ulm mode> > 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 Why not display it to users of all versions? > > 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. > > media-sound/easyeffects is already available in the tree, and all the > PipeWire-dependent ebuilds of media-sound/pulseeffects will be removed > in 7 days. Therefore, users of >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0 are > asked to emerge media-sound/easyeffects instead. I like short but here it seems that you're skipping some essential details and having users guess. Maybe start by explaining the current state (I guess something like 'pulseeffects versions X use pulseaudio, while versions Y switched to pipewire'?). Then tell people that upstream has decided to rename the project to avoid ambiguity (?). Then make it clear that we are going to split the packages in Gentoo, and one will support PA and the other PW. Finally, tell explicitly what PA and PW users should do, and provide an example emerge snippet (do they need to deselect pulseeffects?). -- Best regards, Michał Górny
