Comment 4 for bug 488981

I understand that the Wine project has decided not to integrate the winepulse patchset due to various issues - some reputedly political, but the most cited one being that the Wine audio layer is now queued up for a full redesign. Apparently, a decision has been made to lean on OpenAL, to avoid the pain of building their own drivers every time. I think that's a great idea.

However, I'd very much like to see this patch applied as well. Until WineHQ gets a version of wine together that avoids the severe sound-skipping (Bug #371897) and other problems caused by the ALSA emulation layer, I see no reason why these patches (which cause no problems in any tests I've run) can't be applied in a distribution that defaults to PulseAudio.

I'm currently maintaining a version of Wine with the latest winepulse patches in my PPA at https://launchpad.net/~eric-astor/+archive/epastor - I try to keep it fully up-to-date with the latest Wine releases, and occasionally even manage to release a new version before it makes it into the WineHQ repositories. I'd welcome any users - and any help testing the package, to verify that the patch set doesn't cause any problems on other machines!