[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#852299: Bug#852299: alsa-utils: ship alsaucm man page

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Antonio Ospite <ao2 at ao2.it> [2017-01-23 13:17 +0100]:

> Package: alsa-utils
> Version: 1.1.3-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> since alsa-utils 1.1.3 alsa-utils ships a man page for the alsaucm
> utility program.
> 
> It would be great if you can ship it in the debian package.
> 
> The unix man page is built from a reStructuredText source file using the
> rst2man program which in Debian can be found in python-docutils
> or python3-docutils; so build-depending on either one of these should be
> enough to make the build system generate alsaucm.1.
> 
> If you are building from tarballs and alsaucm.rst is missing there, this
> has been fixed after 1.1.3, see:
> http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=c6bdde171e1532f7b37333a5a746b6e662f12c53
> 
> If this is the case tell if you want me to send a patch which adds
> alsucm.rst at packaging time, until the next stable tarball.

We are building the package from the latest stable tarball. There is
no alsaucm.rst available, though. To build the manpage we need at
least the rstfile and a patch to the Makefile.am. Is it possible to
cherrypick it from ALSA's git?

Elimar
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