Bug#692137: unblock(pre-approval): zsnes/1.510+bz2-5

[Etienne Millon]

* Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> [121104 09:37]:
> > One of the relevant seeming messages says "[a]nother solution would be
> > to disable libao in zsnes but IIRC the other sound backends are
> > terrible". Did that turn out not to be the case?
> 
> Hm, I have no idea what led Etienne to that statement, maybe he can
> elaborate on this.

My bad, I should have checked the bugs instead of saying that. It's
actually the alsa backend that is buggy, but it is provided by libao,
so it makes sense to remove it :

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679826#47
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=679826#67

> I only know that the SDL audio backend is used in hundreds of games and
> see no reason why it should be terrible for zsnes. Furthermore, Etienne
> just tested zsnes without libao support and reported that it works well,
> even in a multi-arch environment:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691993#20

I confirm that the SDL backend works fine.

Thanks !

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Etienne Millon