[Pkg-alsa-devel] alsa-firmware package

[Jaromír Mikeš]

> Od: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de>

> > 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?

This package bringing bunch of firmware for professional sound cards like RME's multiface and digiface
and many others. (emu, digigram, echoaudio etc.)
These firmwares are loaded by programs like hdsploader, vxloader and others which are part of alsa-firmware-loaders package, which is already in debian.

> > 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......

I just filled RFP ;)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=597897
I believe there are other users too which would appreciate having these firmwares easily installed via synaptic.

best regards

mira