[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#675772: libasound2-plugins: Please split PulseAudio plugin into separate package

[Ralf Jung]

Package: libasound2-plugins
Version: 1.0.25-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

please split the PulseAudio plugin for ALSA into a separate package.

libpulse in unstable is by now installable in a foreign architecture using
multiarch. However, for foreign-arch ALSA-based applications to have any sound
on a system using PulseAudio, libasound2-plugins needs to be installed in that
architecture as well. This package also contains other plugins not needed for
just playing sound through PA, and the dependencies caused by these plugins [1]
[2] currently block the package from being installable in a foreign
architecture.
By splitting the PA plugin into its own package, those problems no longer block
using PA on a multiarch system.

Kind regards,
Ralf



[1] for libavcodec: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663045
[2] for jack: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=663042



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libasound2-plugins depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.25-3
ii  libavcodec53              6:0.8.2-2
ii  libavutil51               6:0.8.2-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-32
ii  libjack0 [libjack-0.116]  1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-1
ii  libpulse0                 2.0-3
ii  libsamplerate0            0.1.8-4
ii  libspeexdsp1              1.2~rc1-5
ii  multiarch-support         2.13-32

libasound2-plugins recommends no packages.

libasound2-plugins suggests no packages.

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