[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#591481: Bug#591481: libasound2-dev: /usr/include/alsa/global.h:137: error: redefinition of ???struct timeval???

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:53:50PM -0500, John Simpson wrote:

> I finally found this (in the .diff file that "apt-get source
> libasound2-dev" retrieves):
> --- alsa-lib-1.0.14sa.orig/debian/copyright
> +++ alsa-lib-1.0.14sa/debian/copyright
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +This package was debianized by Wichert Akkerman 7 Jun 1998.
> +Masato Taruishi took over on 17 Oct 1999.
> +Since September 2002 it has been maintained by the participants in
> +the pkg-alsa project at alioth.debian.org.
> +
> +Bugs in the source code (as opposed to bugs in the packaging) are best
> +reported to the upstream bug tracking system:
> +
> +  https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug

This is not true, the ALSA bug tracker is completely abandoned upstream.

> +The source code was downloaded from the ALSA homepage:
> +
> +  http://alsa.sourceforge.net

This is also very out of date, should be http://alsa-project.org