r6742 - packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian

[Andres Mejia]

Author: ceros-guest
Date: 2008-04-24 07:05:03 +0000 (Thu, 24 Apr 2008)
New Revision: 6742

Modified:
   packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/control
Log:
Updated package description

Modified: packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/control
===================================================================
--- packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/control	2008-04-24 06:56:28 UTC (rev 6741)
+++ packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian/control	2008-04-24 07:05:03 UTC (rev 6742)
@@ -13,23 +13,52 @@
 Section: libs
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Description: OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatialized audio
-  OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open,
+Description: Software implementation of the OpenAL API (libraries)
+ OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open,
  vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized
  audio. OpenAL's primary audience are application developers and desktop
  users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other
  multimedia applications.
+ .
+ This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL Sample
+ Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a while, and
+ would require a lot of work to clean up. This is a fork the old Windows version
+ to attempt an accelerated ALSA version of an OpenAL implementation.
+ .
+ OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as
+ opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6
+ channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft
+ does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were considered
+ deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the newer
+ extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel and
+ floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio effects,
+ and others.
+ .
+ This package installs the OpenAL Soft library.
 
 Package: libopenal-dev
 Section: libdevel
 Architecture: any
 Depends: libopenal1 (= ${binary:Version})
-Description: OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatialized audio
+Description: Software implementation of the OpenAL API (development files)
  OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, is a joint effort to create an open,
  vendor-neutral, cross-platform API for interactive, primarily spatialized
  audio. OpenAL's primary audience are application developers and desktop
  users that rely on portable standards like OpenGL, for games and other
  multimedia applications.
  .
- This packages contains the header files and static libraries needed for
- development.
+ This library is meant as a compatible update/replacement to the OpenAL Sample
+ Implementation (the SI). The SI has been unmaintained for quite a while, and
+ would require a lot of work to clean up. This is a fork the old Windows version
+ to attempt an accelerated ALSA version of an OpenAL implementation.
+ .
+ OpenAL Soft supports mono, stereo, 4-channel, 5.1, 6.1, and 7.1 output, as
+ opposed to the SI's 4-channel max (though it did have some provisions for 6
+ channel, this was not 5.1, and was seemingly a "late" addition). OpenAL Soft
+ does not support the Vorbis and MP3 extensions, however those were considered
+ deprecated even in the SI. It does, though, support some of the newer
+ extensions like AL_EXT_FLOAT32 and AL_EXT_MCFORMATS for multi-channel and
+ floating-point formats, as well as ALC_EXT_EFX for environmental audio effects,
+ and others.
+ .
+ This packages contains the OpenAL Soft header files and static libraries.