[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-firmware package

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* 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......

Elimar

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