[Jack-Devel] debian jack/pulse support [ was : Re: JACK in Chrome !! ]

On Thu, January 17, 2013 2:01 am, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 01:56:06AM +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>> > So far, I'm not seeing any distro specific problem. Only buggy code.
>> And
>> >  from what I've read, there may be more than one bug causing problems
>> in
>> > pulse and jack integration.
>> The other thing that causes severe headaches is the naming of the
>> jack1/2
>> packages on Debian.
>
> I feel terribly sorry that we chose "jackd1" for jackd1 and "jackd2" for
> jackd2.
>
>
> We'll be more careful in the future.
>

If you can't recieve constructive feedback that is not going to help
anything.

I posted this thread to LAU in October last year.

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-October/087813.html

http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-October/087822.html


As it currently stands pulse audio does not play nicely with jack ootb on
Debian Wheezy. You can dismiss it as not your problem but if the Debian
packagers are not prepared to test this stuff before creating packages and
feeding that back to the PA devs so they can fix the problem then all
Debian users who want to use JACK with PA suffer as a result.

It's really a simple test procedure and should be a part of every
packaging teams QA process.

1: start PA
2: play something (not using jack)
3: start jack
4: verify that jack starts
5: check that PA shows up as jack ports
7: play something (not using jack)
6: stop jack
7: play something (not using jack)

It should take less than 30 seconds to run this procedure and assuring
that it works will save countless people a lot of time and frustration.


--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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