[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#384971: alsa-utils: please provide a more detailed package description

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.11-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

It would be nice, for searching and installation purpuse to have a
more detailed description for the alsa-utils package, possibly listing
the utilities shipped in the package. For instance

Description: ALSA utilities
 This package contains utilities for configuring and using ALSA,  including:
  * amixer: command line mixer
  * alsamixer: curses mixer
  * amidi:
  * aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
  * aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
  * aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
 .
 ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.


Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  libasound2                1.0.11-7       ALSA library
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.5-2          Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.11-5       base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-15         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.2.2-3        tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                  2.4.27.0-6     Linux module utilities
ii  pciutils                  1:2.2.4~pre4-1 Linux PCI Utilities
ii  python                    2.4.3-11       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-7       Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                     1.0.11-5   ALSA driver configuration files

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