Comment 70 for bug 579300

I can't see any explanation in this thread on why this has to be done. Perhaps you can explain that to us ignorant folks. That programs should be moved to a newer API is not per se a bad thing, but rather the way this is done here. And really, I don't see the problem of providing the ALSA OSS emulation(!!) layer. All new apps can simply ignore it. So please where is the problem? And if older apps don't support modern audio features of say PA, so what? Better than not working at all in any case.

As for your suggested options:
1) How about _first_ doing this and then remove functionality. Further I doubt that this will ever happen, as some often used apps aren't really maintained anymore e.g. tvtime.
2) Unfortunately I for one have to use Maverick kernel, as with Lucid the radeon support is completely broken. And now that I did the update I surely have better things to do than downgrading to Lucid. And also I doubt that with the next LTS there is a proper replacement for say tvtime.
3) This is a pain and no solution! Hours of compiling for every security fix...

And when did Maverick hit the masses? Right, in Oktober! So you want to make users hit by this bug responsible for not using very early test releases?? Come on!