[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-source

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:05:52PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> Hi Gents,
> 
> from my point of view we should orphan alsa-source and cancel it
> from alsa-driver. The kernel team does a good job and 1.0.23 is
> available in 2.6.38 sid package and 1.0.24 in 2.6.39-rc?
> experimental. It is worse to provide a paralell source package.
> Removing this package will flush maintainers garbage a bit ;-) Users
> who want to build their own driver should be able to customize a
> kernelbuild [0]
> 
> What do you think?
 
I'd be very happy with this.

You could also get rid of linux-sound-base and leave it to the oss4
maintainers to screw around with blacklists.  OSS is unmaintained
within mainline Linux and is not included in our Linux configurations.

I'm not sure quite what purpose alsa-base would serve, either.
 
Ben,

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