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Bug #452458 in pulseaudio (Ubuntu): “Add rtkit Conflicts to force removal of rtkit for release testing”
Binary package hint: pulseaudio The last pulseaudio upload to Karmic ( 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu2 ) removed the rtkit Recommends from the debian/control file due to the fact that the Karmic kernel was never patched to support rtkit. This was necessary as rtkit was added to main and by default, it's ...
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