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Jordi Mallach

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Oct 30, 2002, 2:10:10 PM10/30/02
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Hi,

ALSA 0.9.0rc5 will be dinstalled tonight. It should fix many of the
compile problems people were having with rc1 and rc3, but some problems
in alsa-driver remain, including the RC Bug#159093.

I've been NMUing the thing for a for nearly two months now, and I'm
already a bit tired, because I never intended doing more than the first
NMU... so we really need a new maintainer, or better yet, a group of
them (alsa-driver is a bit hairy, and bts mail keeps coming in).

Ben Armstrong has proposed that the Debian Multimedia people take care
of all of these packages, and I guess it's a good idea. Bastian
Kleineidam <cal...@debian.org> was also interested in ALSA, are you,
still?

If someone takes it, I'd be glad to co-maintain it or continue helping a
bit.

Things to do:

alsa-driver's bug list isn't as long as it was two months ago, but there
are still some unconfirmed bugs and important bugs that should be fixed
ASAP, mostly in the alsa-base scripts. alsa-driver's build system is a
mess, and I can only recommend that it gets repackaged from scratch.

alsa-lib and alsa-utils are mostly trivial packages to maintain.

alsaconf I never touched, and AIUI, it needs some major hacking to get
it working "correctly" with the latest versions of ALSA.

alsa-modules needs to be maintained properly and get updated to current
kernels. rc3 didnt' let me do it, as many modules failed to build.
Hopefully rc5 won't be so bad.

alsa-*-0.5: I recently asked debian-devel about these. This version is
officially unsupported by alsa-project, so I wanted to remove them. All
the feedback I got was "please", "go ahead" and "way to go" :)
Alsa-base should get rid of all the 0.5 references, in that case.

I think that's all I needed to say... who wants to adopt this big baby?

Jordi
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Martin Loschwitz

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Oct 30, 2002, 3:10:11 PM10/30/02
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 08:03:22PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote:
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> If someone takes it, I'd be glad to co-maintain it or continue helping a
> bit.
>

I will take it. I've been using ALSA for long time now and i like it. Feel
free to contact me with further details.

Oh, and it would be of course nice if you could sponsor me as i'm not a debian
developer yet.

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marco trevisani

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Oct 30, 2002, 10:20:07 PM10/30/02
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Il 30/10/2002 alle 20:03:22, +0100, Jordi Mallach ha scritto:

> Ben Armstrong has proposed that the Debian Multimedia people take care
> of all of these packages, and I guess it's a good idea. Bastian
> Kleineidam <cal...@debian.org> was also interested in ALSA, are you,
> still?
>

Hi,
I actually sent to Jordi a private email some time ago offering to join
forces with DeMuDi, it probably got lost somewhere, who knows maybe a
dreamed about it...:-)
In any case offer is still valid and we could probably work all together
with Martin and Bastian, if they like the idea and if they agree.

ciao,
marco


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Jordi Mallach

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Nov 2, 2002, 8:20:07 PM11/2/02
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:10:26PM -0400, marco trevisani wrote:
> I actually sent to Jordi a private email some time ago offering to join
> forces with DeMuDi, it probably got lost somewhere, who knows maybe a
> dreamed about it...:-)

Hmm. I must have lost it accidentally, as my procmail logs say it hit my
INBOX on Sept 22.

> In any case offer is still valid and we could probably work all together
> with Martin and Bastian, if they like the idea and if they agree.

Cool. The current ALSA status is that I'm probably going to do one last
upload, and then let Martin take care of them. I'm sure he could use
some help with alsaconf and alsa-driver, at least. We should try to
coordinate somehow, maybe just using -devel + [multimedia] tags.

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