[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 62865] PulseAudio 3.0 requires Alsa >=1.0.24.1 but checks for >=1.0.19

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62865

Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |---

--- Comment #2 from Peter Åstrand <astrand at lysator.liu.se> ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The version check is already fixed.

Yes, apparently on master, but not on stable-3.x. 


> I don't personally see the point of complicating things by making UCM an
> optional feature.

The point would be to be able to use modern versions of PulseAudio on systems
which does not have bleeding edge versions of Alsa: Debian (even unstable) has
1.0.23. The latest CentOS/RHEL has 1.0.22. Suse Linux Enterprise has 1.0.18. We
(=Cendio) are also shipping PulseAudio in our ThinLinc client, which targets
many thin terminals, which certainly does not have the latest Alsa. 

If you require bleeding edge versions of Alsa (and other software packages),
this means that you are limiting the audience and potential use of PulseAudio.
This in turn, means that we and others are forced to use older versions, and
cannot contribute to the development. We have done major contributions in the
past, including the Win32 and Solaris ports, the alsa-pulseaudio bridge etc. We
would be glad if we could continue contributing in the future. 

Thus, from our perspective, it is critical that we can use slightly older
versions of Alsa. I did some work yesterday and it wasn't that difficult to
introduce an ifdef HAVE_ALSA_UCM. Are you sure you are not interested in such a
patch?

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