FS#52321 - [mangler] package depends on pulseaudio but should depend on libpulse

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by James Eder (James_Eder) - Saturday, 31 December 2016, 17:47 GMT
Last edited by Balló György (City-busz) - Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 19:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Evgeniy Alexeev (arcan1s)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Hi. The package currently lists pulseaudio as a dependency but a dependency of libpulse would suffice. Changing this will not have any meaningful impact that I can see other than allowing users to run Mangler without a full PA installation (if they would just like to use plain old ALSA instead). This doesn't change resulting binaries as they are still built on libpulse either way.

Thank you for your consideration.
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Closed by  Balló György (City-busz)
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 19:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 01 January 2017, 00:13 GMT
Have you tested this? See  FS#41770 
Comment by James Eder (James_Eder) - Tuesday, 03 January 2017, 03:39 GMT
It took me some time for me to duplicate  FS#41770 . It turns out that the hang is avoided by changing 'AudioSubsystem = pulse' to 'AudioSubsystem = alsa' in ~/.mangler/config.ini. I have been running mangler without pulseaudio for sometime by building the package without the dependency changed to libpulse (which is redundant because it's pulled in by other dependencies).

I don't remember ever editing ~/.mangler/config.ini but my memory is less than perfect. It could also be the case that Manger's startup behaviour changed and I never noticed because my configuration file was already set.

At any rate it seems like there's some upstream bugs. Upstream seems dead, however. Their website has gone missing so I opted to pull it from WayBack https://web.archive.org/web/20141112133711/http://www.mangler.org/download/

Given the disarray, I'm fine with whatever. My motivation was to clean up my 'pacman -Qm' a bit.
Comment by Balló György (City-busz) - Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 19:55 GMT
mangler is no longer available in the official repositories.

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