FS#46416 - [spice-gtk3] don't enforce pulseaudio

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Martin Kühne (mar77i) - Thursday, 24 September 2015, 08:31 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 24 September 2015, 13:18 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Trying to get audio working on qemu using libvirt, I stumbled over a peculiar error message which lead to the following discovery:
$ pacman -Si spice-gtk3
Repository : community
Name : spice-gtk3
Version : 0.29-1
[...]
Depends On : celt0.5.1 dbus-glib gtk3 libcacard libpulse usbredir libsoup
[...]

Checking the PKGBUILD from abs, indeed:

PYTHON=python2 ./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-static --enable-vala --with-gtk=3.0 \
--with-audio=pulse \
--with-coroutine=gthread --sbindir=/usr/bin \
--enable-smartcard

I am perfectly aware we don't want the same package multiple times in the repo, but seriously, it appears like a major inconvenience to not have a package that provides spice without the inconvenience of having to use pulseaudio.
The other question then is whether a gstreamer compile could be made to work with pulseaudio... which I would agree to try out and report.

Attachment: local patch to the PKGBUILD.
   spice3-gstreamer.diff (0.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Thursday, 24 September 2015, 13:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#45852 
Comment by Martin Kühne (mar77i) - Thursday, 24 September 2015, 08:33 GMT
Speaking of gstreamer, the wiki [0] reports it totally works with pulseaudio.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GStreamer

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