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On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 01:01 +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: |
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> Officially the new name has only been in effect since version 6.0.0 but |
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> having discussed this with prometheanfire on IRC, it makes sense to |
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> extend the new name to >=5.0.0 - that way people not interested in |
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> switching from plain PulseAudio to PipeWire can continue to use v4 |
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> (which according to upstream is now in maintenance mode, i.e. hasn't |
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> been EOLed yet) without having to mask v5 ebuilds. |
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> It 7 days feels like a reasonable time to wait before dropping |
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> media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.4 from the tree because this news item will |
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> continue to display for affected users even after the ebuild is gone, |
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> won't it. |
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> * * * |
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> Title: PipeWire versions of PulseEffects are now media-sound/easyeffects |
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<ulm mode>The title is too long (50 chars max AFAIR)</ulm mode> |
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> Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@g.o> |
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> Posted: 2021-07-16 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0 |
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Why not display it to users of all versions? |
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> In response to the upstream decision to rename PulseEffects to |
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> EasyEffects we have decided to adopt the new name for versions only |
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> supporting media-video/pipewire while retaining the old one for versions |
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> allowing the use of media-sound/pulseaudio. |
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> media-sound/easyeffects is already available in the tree, and all the |
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> PipeWire-dependent ebuilds of media-sound/pulseeffects will be removed |
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> in 7 days. Therefore, users of >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0 are |
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> asked to emerge media-sound/easyeffects instead. |
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I like short but here it seems that you're skipping some essential |
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details and having users guess. |
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Maybe start by explaining the current state (I guess something like |
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'pulseeffects versions X use pulseaudio, while versions Y switched to |
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pipewire'?). Then tell people that upstream has decided to rename |
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the project to avoid ambiguity (?). Then make it clear that we are |
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going to split the packages in Gentoo, and one will support PA |
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and the other PW. Finally, tell explicitly what PA and PW users should |
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do, and provide an example emerge snippet (do they need to deselect |
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pulseeffects?). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |