[Pkg-alsa-devel] Toward an alsa-tools release

[Thomas Hood]

Dear all!  In case you hadn't heard, Mikael Magnusson's alsa-tools 
Debian package has been added to the svn tree.  Now that we have made 
the decision to package this software for Debian I would like to see it 
get released without any unnecessary delay.

Please svn up in trunk and review the packaging files.  And please test 
the package if you can!  I have read through some of the files and have 
made a few minor changes; but the more eyeballs are better.


> Thomas Hood wrote to MM:
>> Can the diversion of EMU10K1.conf be eliminated from the ld10k1
>> package if we made suitable changes to the original EMU10K1.conf
>> file in libasound2?

MM replied:
> Actually, it requires a patched SB Live! (emu10k1) driver. I made a patch
 > that adds support for front outputs separate from default stereo output
 > and posted it on the ALSA list but it hasn't been accepted, yet. I'll 
make
 > another try and post it again.


OK.  Remember to put a "Signed-off-by:" line in the bug report.


 > The patched driver and modified EMU10K1.conf are needed to support the
 > prologic decoder and surround51 output with the same DSP code, since
 > the front channels of surround51 shouldn't be routed to the prologic
 > decoder.
 >
 > We should not use the modified EMU10K1.conf until it's supported by
 > the emu10k1 driver in Debian.


I assume that when upstream applies the patch it will also make the 
required changes to EMU10K1.conf.  So we do not have to divert the file.
MM: If this reasoning is sound, can you please remove the diversion code 
from ld10k1?

We do have the option of patching both the driver and the conf file in 
our ALSA packages now.  That is tempting, but my inclination is not to 
do this because it makes our job more difficult for only a temporary 
benefit.  These are upstream changes and upstream is good about applying 
patches.

-- 
Thomas Hood