[pulseaudio-discuss] Next pulseaudio release?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 15:58 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> So, if I understand correctly, the current situation is the following:
> 
> 1. oFono patches have been fully merged.
> 2. Wim Taymans patches have not been merged yet (or at least not completely)
> 3. Even if Wim's patches are merged, we (debian) will have to choose
> between oFono or native at compile time.
> 4. Either patchset is not complete, in that one supports HSP and the other HFP.
> 5. In practice, the above is not terribly important, because most
> devices support both.
> 6. oFono requires manual configuration by the user.

I'm not sure about the last point. Perhaps it's possible for the distro
to provide a working default configuration.

> With the above understanding, I'm thinking that we could work around
> problem 3 by building pulseaudio twice and shipping the relevant
> modules in separate conflicting packages. Not sure if that would be
> too confusing for users.
> 
> If ofono requires manual configuration (and does the ofono support
> have a minimum version requirement? Debian currently has 1.9), I think
> it would be better for us to use the native backend, if it manages to
> be upstreamed in time.

I'm sure the oFono support has a minimum version requirement, but
unfortunately I don't know what that is. We should put the information
in the release notes, so someone should figure out the minimum version
before the release...

I filed a release blocker bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84414

-- 
Tanu