[alsa-devel] Alsa-info.sh is never released
Takashi Iwai
tiwai at suse.de
Mon Aug 4 15:24:00 CEST 2014
At Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:28:10 +0200,
David Henningsson wrote:
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> On 2014-07-22 08:21, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:03:34 +0200,
> > David Henningsson wrote:
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> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Since ~two years back Ubuntu ships alsa-info.sh on new installations, in
> >> order to have bug reports that are upstream compatible.
> >>
> >> However, alsa-info.sh seems to be a part of the alsa-driver git tree,
> >> and the alsa-driver package is not released anymore, since we think that
> >> is a part of the Linux kernel. As a result, alsa-info.sh is no longer
> >> part of an upstream tarball that we can package in the usual way.
> >>
> >> So maybe we should move alsa-info somewhere else, e g alsa-utils? What
> >> do you think?
> >
> > +1. alsa-utils or alsa-tools is a better place to maintain.
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> I'd prefer alsa-utils over alsa-tools: alsa-utils seems to have generic
> utilities and alsa-tools specialised ones (i e for some specific
> hardware). Since alsa-info is a generic tool (usable for everyone,
> regardless of driver/hardware), alsa-utils seems to be a better fit.
OK, I put alsa-info.sh to alsa-utils git repo now.
Jaroslav, could you relink on www.alsa-project.org?
Takashi
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