[Pkg-alsa-devel] helping with ALSA packaging

[Thomas Hood]

Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> I might be able to help you. Although I didn't do any major alsa
> programming, I'm reasonable familiar with the alsa lib, alsa kernel
> drivers and configuration. I also have done more complicated
> multichannel alsa setups.

Cesare Tensi wrote:
> I can help [you]. I installed many times ALSA library and I helped myself
> from scratch for understanding how the driver work and how to configure it
> on various system (I use Debiam, but also RedHat and Slackware).

The first step is to subscribe to pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org.

You can help right now by answering the question asked by the submitter of
#342649:
> I don't know if aplay is supposed to work with -Dhw... Is the devices
> defined for alsa documented anywhere so I can get an idea of what is
> supposed to work with aplay?

Questions like this come up from time to time and I don't know how to
answer them because I don't use advanced features of the ALSA library.

Next, please look for the bugs tagged 'help' at bugs.debian.org/src:alsa-lib
and see if there's anything else that falls within your domain of knowledge.

Let me know if you have things to contribute to the packaging per se, such as
a man page for .asoundrc (hint hint).
-- 
Thomas