Bits from the Debian Multimedia Team [RELOADED]

[Felipe Sateler]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:52, Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> On 03/23/2012 02:38 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
> [LADISH]
>
>> We are still missing an explanation on the following sentence:
>>
>> Note that JACK needs to compile with a no-self-connect patch enabled
>> in order to prevent clients self-connect/disconnect their own ports to
>> ports of other JACK applications. The current jackd2 version available
>> in Debian Wheezy fully supports ladish and also cooperates fine with
>> it.
>>
>> What does this mean for jackd1? If it is enabled, is this worth
>> mentioning?
>
>
> jackd1 can't be used with ladish, since we don't provide jack1dbus.
> AFAIK, there's a patch somewhere, but it's simply not necessary, jackd2
> is just fine for that, so we leave jackd1 as is for the purists (no
> dependency on dbus and the like).
>
> IMHO, the paragraph about the no-self-connect patch can be removed
> entirely, since we already do the right thing(tm). ;)


OK, I've replaced the paragraph with this:

Note that ladish uses the D-Bus interface to the jack daemon. This
means that jackd1 does not support it. The current jackd2 version
available in Debian Wheezy fully supports ladish and also cooperates
fine with it.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler