[Pkg-alsa-devel] RFH: alsa-driver 1.0.23

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Jordi Mallach [100529 00:57 +0200]
> Hi Elimar,
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:07:16PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > I managed to port Ben's patches to 1.0.23. Drivers are build against
> > Debian's linux headers but not against a custom kernel build with
> > 'make deb-pkg'. The headers dir is missing....
> 
> My opinion is that this would be nice, but is not critical. People
> compiling mainline kernels will probably be getting a newer ALSA anyway.
> I'd only consider critical building or not against official Debian header
> packages.

Actual 2.6.34 has 1.0.22.1. Well I think we should give *every*
kernel build the chance to compile the actual alsa drivers. It must
be just a small add to ben's patches to get it. I am not as
comfortable with kernel hacking than Ben is.

> > I'll take a break before updating the rest of the packages ;-)
> 
> Thanks for making the effort for alsa-driver!
> 
> I had been looking into updating alsa-lib myself. In the process, I
> thought that providing upstream's ChangeLog like we do now is too much of
> a waste of time; it's nice to provide it, but if ALSA doesn't provide one,
> we shouldn't be doing the cutn'pasting ourselves. One less thing to deal
> with when doing new versions. What do you think, Elimar?

Jordi, it took 3 min. to create an ASCII changelog from alsa's html
changelog with the help of lynx and vim. If I am whimsy I'll create
a script, though. Else we could provide a netlink to alsa's home
page... But the changelogs here are only 2 to 3 versions back.

We should concentrate to the patches of Ben. To maintain these isn't
useful for the long term. We need patches which makes it possible to
build against Debian headers _and_ custom build kernels to push the
patch upstream. This will be a much more advantage. FYI configure
tests for RedHead, SuSE and other distro kernels ex Debian.....

Thats said
Elimar


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