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FS#12562 - Pulseaudio is out-of-date

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Ayla Ounce (reacocard) - Wednesday, 24 December 2008, 19:56 GMT
Last edited by Corrado Primier (bardo) - Thursday, 15 January 2009, 22:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Corrado Primier (bardo)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

The pulseaudio package in community is out-of-date. They contain version 0.9.10 of pulseaudio, while upstream's latest is 0.9.13. Given the significant progress made upstream between these versions I feel an update is in order.
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Closed by  Corrado Primier (bardo)
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 22:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Finally a stable version =) Should've fixed everything...
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Monday, 05 January 2009, 06:59 GMT
BTW, you should set --localstatedir=/var in the configure line. Otherwise, the daemon fail to start:

Jan 5 01:56:33 ovide pulseaudio[6865]: main.c: Failed to create '/usr/var/run/pulse': No such file or directory
Jan 5 01:56:33 ovide pulseaudio[6864]: main.c: read() failed: No such file or directory
Jan 5 01:56:33 ovide pulseaudio[6864]: main.c: daemon startup failed.
Comment by Corrado Primier (bardo) - Monday, 05 January 2009, 10:16 GMT
The "significant progress" means only crashes in every twenty minutes or so. Many reports confirm my findings that all versions following 0.9.10 are very unstable. I'd be happy to update the package, but I'm sure I'd only get complaints if I did. I'm reporting what I wrote about this on the package page on the AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8520):

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0.9.13, just like 11 and 12, is very unstable. It crashes a lot and has a number of other problems. The main dev works for redhat, and applies about twenty patches to their release. He says that, even though patches are often critical, a proper release takes too much time for him, so he doesn't update often.

Too bad we don't like patches very much, and updating the package at least once a week is out of the question as you can imagine. 0.9.10 works fine, even though it's missing the most recent features, so I'll stick with it until a stabler version comes out. I have good hopes on 0.9.14, having a look at the development process.

In the meantime, if someone is interested in seeing 0.9.13 crash I can provide my personal build. You can find the necessary patches on redhat's website. I think I'll release a new 0.9.10 build in a few days to address a couple of bug reports, otherwise don't expect very much.
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Anyway, I'll keep this bug open because another issue has been reported by Eric and I want to fix that one.
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 08:19 GMT
FYI: PulseAudio 0.9.14 was released. I have no idea how stable it is.

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