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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] News item v2: media-sound/pulseeffects "renaming"
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 19:54:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2462197cab0b28d69e7a47ffa275ca29c7fc108.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210713123855.236367-2-marecki@gentoo.org>

On Tue, 2021-07-13 at 13:38 +0100, Marek Szuba wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>
> ---
>  ...2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects.en.txt | 33 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects.en.txt
> 
> diff --git a/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects.en.txt b/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects.en.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..70d1899
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects/2021-07-16-pulseeffects-easyeffects.en.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
> +Title: PulseEffects-5+ are now media-sound/easyeffects
> +Author: Marek Szuba <marecki@gentoo.org>
> +Posted: 2021-07-16
> +Revision: 1
> +News-Item-Format: 2.0
> +Display-If-Installed: >=media-sound/pulseeffects-5.0.0
> +
> +Since version 5.0.0, media-sound/pulseeffects have explicitly required
> +media-video/pipewire rather than just a PulseAudio client (i.e. either
> +PipeWire or plain media-sound/pulseaudio). Following up on this change,
> +upstream has decided to rename the project to EasyEffects starting with
> +version 6.0.0.
> +
> +Gentoo will follow the upstream renaming but in a slightly different
> +fashion:
> + - versions older than 5.0.0, i.e. ones not depending on
> +   media-video/pipewire, will continue to use the name
> +   media-sound/pulseeffects;
> + - versions: 5.0.0 and newer, i.e. all requiring media-video/pipewire,
> +   will be available as media-sound/easyeffects.
> +
> +media-sound/easyeffects is already available in the tree, and the
> +remaining PipeWire-dependent ebuilds of media-sound/pulseeffects will

s/ebuilds/versions/.

> +be removed in 7 days.
> 

Probably better to use an explicit date here.  '7 days' sounds relative
to 'now'.

>  Therefore, PipeWire users of
> +media-sound/pulseeffects should switch to the new package by
> +deselecting the old one and installing the new one, e.g.
> +
> +emerge --deselect media-sound/pulseeffects
> +emerge media-sound/easyeffects
> +
> +No action is required of media-sound/pulseeffects users who either use
> +PulseAudio exclusively or wish to retain the ability to use this
> +package with both PulseAudio and PipeWire.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny




  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-13 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-13 12:38 [gentoo-dev] News item v2: media-sound/pulseeffects "renaming" Marek Szuba
2021-07-13 12:38 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] " Marek Szuba
2021-07-13 17:54   ` Michał Górny [this message]
2021-07-14 11:27     ` Marek Szuba

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