[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#852281: Acknowledgement (Please do not make libasound2 dependent on python)

[Michael Biebl]

Looking into this a bit more closely, this seems to be triggered by this
upstream change:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-lib.git;a=commitdiff;h=a668a94238dc67b19ae187b52a161e027d79ee5d

Apparently the smixer plugins are broken without python support enabled,
which makes me wonder, why no-one noticed that in the Debian package so
far. I assume that the smixer modules are purely optional and not
actually used by libasound2.

Given that the modules are installed as
/usr/lib/$(MULTIARCH)/alsa-lib/smixer
this will also make a library transition for libasound more complicated,
as you get file conflicts when there is a soname bump and you have a
libasound2 and libasound3 package.

As smixer seemingly provides only optional functionality, please split
that out into a libasound-plugins-smixer or similarly named package and
maybe add a Suggests to libasound2.

Regards,
Michael

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