Comment 6 for bug 62855

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:16:23AM -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The update itself seems fine; my only reservation is that the original bug
> > doesn't seem serious enough to justify the inherent risk factors of an
> > update. It seems that it would affect only a very small number of users (on
> > particular hardware and doing stereo audio capture?).
>
> As Jeff mentioned in the follow-up to bug 62855, a significant number of
> "AC'97" users are affected. Considering that there is zero possibility
> of backward breakage by applying this fix for stereo audio capture and

Only a tiny fraction of users are likely to be using stereo audio capture at
all. With a little more context from the file, though, it seems clear that
only those users will be affected by the patch.

Let's go ahead with this update.

> that Ubuntu will soon have an audio-centric sister project, IMO it seems
> sensible to include this fix in dapper-updates.

Is this sister project committed to deriving from Dapper? Typically it
makes more sense to start from the most recent version, which will soon be
Edgy.

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 - mdz