[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#531668: Bug#531668: alsa-driver autoconf script is broken

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 15:33 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Ben Hutchings [100327 13:28 +0000]
> > On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 14:16 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> [...  ]
> > > If your patch is needed to get alsa drivers build against Debian
> > > kernels this is a "Debian specific" solution.
> > 
> > Not it is not.
> > 
> 
> Well, then you might approve a patch to alsa-devel then? The patches
> are very unmaintainable for a non kernel developer. This is
> unresolvable for me at the moment...

Please do send the patches upstream.

> > > BTW, IIRC the drivers build well till
> > > Debain-2.6.26 or so. This is a bit suspicious for me. As well I
> > > noticed no bug against upstream version which is similar to ours....
> > > 
> > > There is a new bug coming up from 2.6.33. Here we have
> > > include/generated which is unknown to make-kpkg modules-image.
> > 
> > Use 'make deb-pkg'.
> 
> This has to be told to the kernel-package/m-a maintainers then.

We have been saying this repeatedly since September.  Unfortunately, due
to strong package ownership in Debian, people take it personally when
their packages turn out to be obsolete.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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