Bug 501132

I second this, I think doing this right at the start of F-12 is a good idea, Debian has already made the swithc, so we should be able to get patches from them
for most dependend packages (where needed).

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Here is my openal-soft package but it is in review request

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507110

Setting NEEDINFO

As stated several times before I am all for replacing openal by openal soft. However this should be discussed somewhere else and not in bugzilla. Maybe make a feature request out of it for F12?

How can i make or you this feature request?

Andreas,

This was alreayd discussed somewhere in the F-10 timeframe and then it was
already decided to do this, but it was postponed because we were to close
to the feature freeze. Then during F-11 we all seem to have had different priorities, lets not go and discuss this again, OpenAL-soft a drop in replacement
API wise (but not ABI wise) so all that is needed is a rebuild.

I'm afraid that if we are going to first have a long discussion on this, we
will be too late for F-12 too. Also notice the Debian has already done this
without any problems almost a year ago.

So lets just make the switch, drop the old packages and send a mail to
fedora-devel-announce that al openal using packages will need to be rebuild,
and that it would be a good idea to look at the matching Debian package for
any patches to make things work (better) with OpenAL-soft.

Regards,

Hans

+1 for just switching to openal-soft (without writing feature request)

Any progress here?

Ask Andreas Bierfert he is the mantanier of this package.

Hi,

As Fedora has now switch to PulseAudio as its default sound daemon, this package should be updated (As far as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507110 is concerned)

+ default config file should be installed:
-> alsoftrc.sample should be installed to /etc/openal/alsoft.conf

+ Drivers section should be updated whith
drivers = pulse, alsa

Regards,
Frédéric

Non-responsive Maintainer Policy

i will take this packages when you don´t will answer here Andreas Bierfert

This is the first step File a bug against the package in bugzilla asking for the maintainer to respond (after checking if the maintainer is on Vacation ).

What is it with non responsive. Once openal-soft is submitted openal can be retired. Before that there is nothing for me to do on openal. To my impression other people were taking care of adding openal-soft to fedora.

Now as openal-soft is introduced on rawhide tree, please submit
a request to rel-eng team to remove openal from rawhide tree
(now adding "dead.package" in Fedora CVS system does not remove
 the package from rawhide tree automatically, request to rel-eng
 team is also needed)

https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/

I did this a couple of hours ago so it should be handled soon. As you found the ticket already here is the link for reference:

https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2124

Now openal is blocked on koji for dist-f12. Once F12alpha freeze
is unfrozen openal will be removed from rawhide tree.

Now closing this ticket.

Oops:

Andreas, the last issue is that it is better that you release the
ownership of openal on rawhide (to make openal marked as orphaned
on rawhide). Please visit:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/openal

(only for devel. Now we have to make changes on Fedora CVS, rel-eng
 (koji) and Fedora pkgdb ... )