[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-firmware package

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-09-23 20:40, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Jaromír Mikeš [100923 00:33 +0200]:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am just curious why we don't have alsa-firmware package in debian.
>> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.23.tar.bz2
>
> What is that package needed for?
>
>> Are there any technical or other problems which make packaging
>> difficult or impossible?
>
> It is always problematic to distute binaries wih no source code. It
> should went into nonfree like firmware-linux-nonfree. At the moment
> there are none requests to include alsa-firmware......

It could be worth to note that as of the upcoming 10.10, Ubuntu has 
merged alsa-firmware into linux-firmware. If you want to do the same in 
Debian, I'll be happy to answer questions about it.

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David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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