[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#522576: alsa-lib: Please provide a libasound2-common-udeb

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: alsa-lib
Severity: normal

Hello,

So as to support speech synthesis during d-i, I'd need an alsa
udeb. To make things simpler and save initrd room, I'd rather
statically link libasound.a into the speech synthesizer.  However,
I still need /usr/share/alsa, could you provide it in a udeb, like
libasound2-common-udeb?  Attached is a crude patch achieving what
I'd need. (it's crude because such package should be Arch:all, not
Arch:any).

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- 
Samuel
+#if defined(__alpha__) && defined(CONFIG_PCI)
+       /*
+        * The meaning of life, the universe, and everything. Plus
+        * this makes the year come out right.
+        */
+       year -= 42;
+#endif
(From the patch for 1.3.2: (kernel/time.c), submitted by Marcus Meissner)
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diff -ur alsa-lib-1.0.19-patched/debian/control /home/samy/brl/speech/alsa-lib-1.0.19-old/debian/control
--- alsa-lib-1.0.19-patched/debian/control	2009-04-04 23:45:38.000000000 +0200
+++ /home/samy/brl/speech/alsa-lib-1.0.19-old/debian/control	2009-04-04 16:40:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@
  .
  ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
 
+Package: libasound2-common-udeb
+Architecture: any
+Section: libs
+XC-Package-Type: udeb
+Description: shared library for ALSA applications
+ This package contains the ALSA library and its standard plugins.
+ .
+ ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
+
 Package: libasound2-dev
 Architecture: alpha amd64 arm armeb armel hppa i386 ia64 lpia m32r m68k mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 s390x sh3 sh3eb sh4 sh4eb sparc
 Section: libdevel
diff -ur alsa-lib-1.0.19-patched/debian/rules /home/samy/brl/speech/alsa-lib-1.0.19-old/debian/rules
--- alsa-lib-1.0.19-patched/debian/rules	2009-04-04 23:45:38.000000000 +0200
+++ /home/samy/brl/speech/alsa-lib-1.0.19-old/debian/rules	2009-04-04 16:40:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@
 endif
 	dh_installdirs -s
 	dh_install -s
+	dh_installdirs -plibasound2-common-udeb
+	cp -a debian/libasound2/usr/share/alsa debian/libasound2-common-udeb/usr/share/
 	dh_installdocs -plibasound2
 	dh_installexamples -s doc/asoundrc.txt
 	dh_installchangelogs -plibasound2 debian/changelog.ALSA
--- /dev/null	2009-04-03 22:43:33.710006992 +0200
+++ /home/samy/brl/speech/alsa-lib-1.0.19-old/debian/libasound2-common-udeb.dirs	2009-04-04 16:22:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/usr/share