On 8/4/10, Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de> wrote: > * John Simpson [100804 14:53 -0500]: > [...] >> >> I am sure I missed something somewhere. >> > >> > Of course yes ;-) >> > >> > Elimar >> > >> > -- >> > The path to source is always uphill! >> > -unknown- >> >> I finally found this (in the .diff file that "apt-get source >> libasound2-dev" retrieves): >> --- alsa-lib-1.0.14sa.orig/debian/copyright >> +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14sa/debian/copyright > > Hey, 1.0.14 isn't supported any more . This version was valid ages > ago.
That is what is in the repository: [1|u...@nokia-n810-43-7|~]apt-get source libasound2-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Need to get 1148kB of source archives. Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib 1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (dsc) [1020B] Get:2 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib 1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (tar) [1099kB] Get:3 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib 1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (diff) [47.5kB] Fetched 1148kB in 12s (88.4kB/s) dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package (./alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.dsc) dpkg-source: extracting alsa-lib in alsa-lib-1.0.14sa dpkg-source: unpacking alsa-lib_1.0.14sa.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: applying ./alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.diff.gz [1|u...@nokia-n810-43-7|~] > >> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ >> +This package was debianized by Wichert Akkerman 7 Jun 1998. >> +Masato Taruishi took over on 17 Oct 1999. >> +Since September 2002 it has been maintained by the participants in >> +the pkg-alsa project at alioth.debian.org. >> + >> +Bugs in the source code (as opposed to bugs in the packaging) are best >> +reported to the upstream bug tracking system: >> + >> + https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug >> + >> +The source code was downloaded from the ALSA homepage: >> + >> + http://alsa.sourceforge.net >> + >> +alsa-lib >> +-------- >> >> >> Perhaps that information could be placed here -> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/admin/pkg-alsa-devel/?VARHELP=general/info > > No. Why not ? > >> and here -> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/admin/pkg-alsa-devel/?VARHELP=general/welcome_msg > > No, Why not ? > >> as documented at >> http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html > > What do you want? I want the libasound2-dev package installed on my device, so that I can use it to generate sound on my device. > >> That way, when end-users (PEOPLE who "just want this thing to work") >> get as far as seeing this: >> >> [1|u...@nokia-n810-43-7|~]cat alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.dsc >> Format: 1.0 >> Source: alsa-lib >> Version: 1.0.14sa-2maemo2 >> Binary: lib32asound2-dev, lib64asound2, lib32asound2, >> libasound2-dev, libasound2, libasound2-doc, libasound2-dbg, >> lib64asound2-dev >> Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers >> <pkg-alsa-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> >> >> ... and go to that list to get help from the exspurts, they can be >> redirected to the appropriate forum. > > I run a n800 maemo driven as well. But as of my understanding > packages for that arch should be updated to the newest versions (we're > running 1.0.23 right now). You need to find a MAEMO-ALSA maintainer. > > Debian people are happy to find flavours like MAEMO but the > maintaining of those packages should be kept by MAEMO people. So are you saying that I should go to http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-maemo-maintainers for help with libasound2-dev? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
