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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Thanks for your your feedback!
Yes, the problem with pulse is that Ubuntu uses a version with an epoch. 
We aren't currently working on the package, but we hope to make some 
changes soon to improve debian compatibility.

Amos
Scratch Team
http://scratch.mit.edu/


On 07/03/2010 07:20 PM, George Famelis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Package scratch_1.4.0.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb is said to depend on
> pulseaudio (>= 1.0.9)
>
> I use Debian/sid (squeeze) and I was unable to find such a version (I
> could not even find
> something like this in ubuntu either)
>
> Scratch was installed and half-configured and could be used to run the examples
> even without sound.
>
> In order to be able to have scratch fully installed, I changed the
> control file in the .deb to use
> pulseaudio (>= 0.9.21), that is available in debian, and everything works fine.
>
> I would suggest to change the dependency to 0.9.21.
>
> I would also suggest to turn the Depends into a Recomends pulseaudio
> as scratch can work,
> even without sound, even when pulseaudio is not installed.
>
> Thank you for this nice piece of programming work.
>
> Famelis George
> famelis@xxxxxxxxx