[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, John Simpson <john at swajime.com> wrote:
> 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?

I found this thread showing that this is a recurring problem:
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2010-January/023978.html