[RoarAudio] libavdevice53's dependency on libroar-compat1 (on debian-multimedia)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sa, Okt 01, 2011 at 12:53:44 (CEST), Philipp Schafft wrote:

> flum,
>
> Last night after some researches I found out that the ffmpeg
> (pkg:libavdevice53) package depend on libroar-compat1. This is because
> it uses libroarsndio.1 from this package. While I consider this
> perfectly correct I haven't found a changelog entry for this.

[...]

Note that this is simply untrue for the official debian package. I
cannot really comment on the package in the rogue (dmo) archive,
probably an unclean build environment or something. Moreover, I'd like
to point out that Debian ships Libav (cf. http://libav.org), dmo seems
to follow the branch from videolan.org.

> To the maintainers of libavdevice53 in the offical distribution:
> I would kindly you to check as well if this dependency makes sense for
> the package. I don't know which code within the lib uses my package nor
> if it is also present in the offical distribution so I don't want to
> open a possibly invalid bug report.

Libavdevice has code that enables applications to access audio hw via
sndio. As discussed on IRC, this is mainly useful on OpenBSD where this
originates. Until there is a proper port of libsndio to Linux (or
someone requests building against the RoarAudio compat wrapper and can
confirm that it actually works), I don't think it makes much sense to
explicitly enable it.

> Thanks all of you for your work :)

Your welcome!

Cheers!

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