Change from audio group to something else

Kaj Ailomaa zequence at mousike.me
Sun Oct 26 20:29:40 UTC 2014


The bug got closed before I had the time to blink, so I'm taking the
discussion to debian-devel list.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 09:07 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> I just reported a bug on the usage of audio group. bug #766914
> 
> As it seems to be considered a bad group for users to belong to, and the
> fact that jackd packages expects the users to be apart of it, I propose
> to remove audio as a user default and create a new group for jack
> specifically.
> 
> ffado also requires the audio group, but AFAIK, the ffado drivers are
> only used with jack.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?
> 
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