[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

--- Comment #3 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
Users of released (and thus more or less frozen) distribution versions aren't
our target audience. If they were, we couldn't depend on any software that was
newer than five years or so. (How long are RHEL releases, for example,
supported by Red Hat?) Users are expected to get new PulseAudio versions when
they upgrade their operating systems.

I can see how this is a problem for you, if you want to distribute PulseAudio
directly (skipping the distribution middle-man) to your users, but you aren't
prepared to distribute also all of PulseAudio's dependencies in a similar
manner. I don't like this situation either - I'd like to target users directly,
but that's just too much of a hassle. I wish Zero Install
(http://0install.net/) or something like it would really take off.

Anyway, if you write a patch for relaxing the alsa-lib version requirement, I
don't think there's much reason for me to reject it. Just don't expect me to
write that patch.

I'm using Debian testing myself, BTW, and it has libasound2 1.0.25-4, so your
information about Debian unstable's alsa-lib version is outdated.

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