[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#586648: Needs to be fixed

[John Talbut]

What is Debian's (ALSA-maintainer's) policy on this?  Is it satisfactory 
to be supplying software that even an experienced user finds too 
complicated to set up?

I spent a fair amount of time trying to work out how to get ALSA to work 
like I wanted it to.  As far as I can see it should be possible but I 
would need to spend a good deal more time learning about alsa in order 
to set it up.  In the end I gave up and installed PulseAudio, which sort 
of works.

Is this the policy, to use PulseAudio for multiple devices?  This seems 
to involve a whole lot of extra packages that should not be necessary.

I guess this is at least as much an upstream issue, but I do not know 
how much is about how the Debian packages are installed.

John