Audio questions

[Tom Albers]

Op ma 24 sep 2007 19:11 schreef u:
> Quote:
> > - For the 4.0 release I'd like to make libasound 1.0.14a a requirement (I
> just 
> > installed 1.0.15rc2 and it fixes another crash for me *sigh*).
> 
> Is the requirement list already frozen?

Ok, I talked to the debian team and they dont mind to depend on anything as long as it is stable, so 1.0.15 is possible if it gets stable. 

> > - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=284171 (short version: lazy 
> > symbol resolving in glibc is not threadsafe and can deadlock) This bug can 
> > cause spurious deadlocks. If at all possible I'd like to see us requiring
> this 
> > glibc version (the fix was posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 so perhaps there's a 
> > bit of dreaming involved on my side...)
> 
> Anyone who can comment on this?

The debian-team thinks we should not 'depend' on it, only make a note in the requirements as in 'because of bug 897 we advise glibc version', where 897 is the bugreport from glibc. I suggest we do so.

Toma