On 8/4/10, John Simpson <j...@swajime.com> wrote: > 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? I found this thread showing that this is a recurring problem: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-January/023978.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
