Comment 16 for bug 194919

StefanPotyra wrote:
> Ok, I've taken a look at the package now.
>
> I'm inclined to reject this bug for the following reasons: Modifying
> openal to depend on the openal library package or openal-soft is a gross
> hack which contradicts everything library packages should adhere to. The
> only way to make packages use of the openal-soft library is hence to
> rebuild these against it. And I'm not really in favour of doing this
> that late in the cycle. However only having the new library in hardy,
> with no package using it seems not to provide anything useful to me.

Hello,

I know it is a gross hack, but I was 100% sure that ubuntu-release would not
like to change to a new package this late in the release cycle. Therefore, I
have resorted to this solution which would:

a) basically not default to the not-so-tested package in Hardy
b) would allow beginners to have proper openal support in Hardy using a single
command
c) would allow more people to test the new package
d) hopefully make the shift to the new package more acceptable for the next
Ubuntu release