2009/11/21 Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>:

There have been plenty of bugs about enabling pulseaudio support in various packages but they are routinely closed with a "deferred until it is in [extra]" message.  To get better audio support we would probably want to bring in at least pulseaudio, oss and portaudio from [community].

I maintain pulse in [community] and couldn't agree more, this package should go to [extra], since it is a makedepend for a lot of packages which many users have to rebuild by themselves at the moment.

So is there a current dev willing to maintain these?

If anybody wants to step up, get in touch with me, I can recap on the current package situation and give a lot of tips for a mostly hassle-free maintenance. Since as far as I know not all devs read this ml, it could be a good idea if someone forwarded this message to arch-dev-public. Thanks, Corrado