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

[John Simpson]

On 8/4/10, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> * John Simpson [100804 14:53 -0500]:
> [...]
>> >> I am sure I missed something somewhere.
>> >
>> > Of course yes ;-)
>> >
>> > Elimar
>> >
>> > --
>> >  The path to source is always uphill!
>> >                                -unknown-
>>
>> 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
>
> Hey, 1.0.14 isn't supported any more . This version was valid ages
> ago.

That is what is in the repository:
[1|user at Nokia-N810-43-7|~]apt-get source libasound2-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 1148kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib
1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (dsc) [1020B]
Get:2 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib
1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (tar) [1099kB]
Get:3 http://repository.maemo.org diablo/sdk/free alsa-lib
1.0.14sa-2maemo2 (diff) [47.5kB]
Fetched 1148kB in 12s (88.4kB/s)
dpkg-source: warning: extracting unsigned source package
(./alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.dsc)
dpkg-source: extracting alsa-lib in alsa-lib-1.0.14sa
dpkg-source: unpacking alsa-lib_1.0.14sa.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.diff.gz
[1|user at Nokia-N810-43-7|~]

>
>> @@ -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
>> +
>> +The source code was downloaded from the ALSA homepage:
>> +
>> +  http://alsa.sourceforge.net
>> +
>> +alsa-lib
>> +--------
>>
>>
>> Perhaps that information could be placed here ->
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/admin/pkg-alsa-devel/?VARHELP=general/info
>
> No.

Why not ?

>
>> and here ->
>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/admin/pkg-alsa-devel/?VARHELP=general/welcome_msg
>
> No,

Why not ?

>
>> as documented at
>> http://staff.imsa.edu/~ckolar/mailman/mailman-administration-v2.html
>
> What do you want?

I want the libasound2-dev package installed on my device, so that I
can use it to generate sound on my device.

>
>> That way, when end-users (PEOPLE who "just want this thing to work")
>> get as far as seeing this:
>>
>>    [1|user at Nokia-N810-43-7|~]cat alsa-lib_1.0.14sa-2maemo2.dsc
>>    Format: 1.0
>>    Source: alsa-lib
>>    Version: 1.0.14sa-2maemo2
>>    Binary: lib32asound2-dev, lib64asound2, lib32asound2,
>> libasound2-dev, libasound2, libasound2-doc, libasound2-dbg,
>> lib64asound2-dev
>>    Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
>> <pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>>
>> ... and go to that list to get help from the exspurts, they can be
>> redirected to the appropriate forum.
>
> I run a n800 maemo driven as well. But as of my understanding
> packages for that arch should be updated to the newest versions (we're
> running 1.0.23 right now). You need to find a MAEMO-ALSA maintainer.
>
> Debian people are happy to find flavours like MAEMO but the
> maintaining of those packages should be kept by MAEMO people.

So are you saying that I should go to
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-maemo-maintainers
for help with libasound2-dev?