[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#290735: libasound2 contains run-time support program "aserver"

[Thomas Hood]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.0.7-5
Severity: minor
Tags: wontfix

jdthood@thanatos:~$ dpkg -L libasound2 | grep bin
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/aserver

Policy 8.2 says:

    8.2 Run-time support programs

    If your package has some run-time support programs which use the shared
    library you must not put them in the shared library package. If you do
    that then you won't be able to install several versions of the shared
    library without getting filename clashes.
    
    Instead, either create another package for the runtime binaries (this
    package might typically be named libraryname-runtime; note the absence
    of the soversion in the package name), or if the development package is
    small, include them in there. 

To follow this policy stipulation, aserver should be moved to libasound2-runtime.

For the time being we refrain from doing this because there is only one
version of alsa-lib available and the libasound2-runtime package would
be extremely small.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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