Bug#795595: libasound2-plugin-equal: change package name to "alsa-equalizer-plugin" or similar and move to sound section

Marcel Partap

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Aug 15, 2015, 11:20:03 AM8/15/15

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Package: libasound2-plugin-equal
Version: 0.6-6
Severity: wishlist

The main reasons being that
a) it is a hidden gem that should not hide in the dark (libs section)
b) it easily gets removed accidently by marking all packages in the libs
section auto-installed, which f.e. can be used to clean up packages on crufty
machines.
Thanks for considering it ;)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (510, 'unstable'), (510, 'testing'), (500, 'utopic'), (500, 'trusty'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/12 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libasound2-plugin-equal depends on:
ii caps 0.9.24-1
ii libasound2 1.0.29-1
ii libc6 2.19-19
ii multiarch-support 2.19-19

libasound2-plugin-equal recommends no packages.

libasound2-plugin-equal suggests no packages.

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Alessandro Ghedini

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Aug 18, 2015, 2:50:03 PM8/18/15

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 05:00:29PM +0200, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Package: libasound2-plugin-equal
> Version: 0.6-6
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The main reasons being that
> a) it is a hidden gem that should not hide in the dark (libs section)
> b) it easily gets removed accidently by marking all packages in the libs
> section auto-installed, which f.e. can be used to clean up packages on crufty
> machines.

The name was decided to follow the libasound2-plugins package naming scheme, so
I think that before renaming alsaequal, this should maybe be discussed with the
ALSA maintainers (I added jordi to CC since he has been doing alsa-plugins
uploads, and since the ALSA Maintainers mailing list seems to be mostly spam).

TBH I'm not really sure if following the alsa-plugins naming scheme actually
makes sense, and personally I would be okay with a rename.

Cheers

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Jordi Mallach

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Aug 18, 2015, 5:50:02 PM8/18/15

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Hi,

El dt 18 de 08 de 2015 a les 20:41 +0200, en/na Alessandro Ghedini va
escriure:

I can't even remember why we settled on that name, other than making it
clear it was plugins for libasound2, not alsa-utils, not alsa-tools,
etc.

It could have been alsa-lib-plugins, or whatever.

As for equal, I guess any name would do, but if we wanted to start a
naming scheme, reversing the suggestion of "alsa-equalizer-plugin" to
"alsa-plugin-equal(izer?) sounds sensible to me.

All in all, I guess I don't care at all either way. :)

Jordi
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Jordi Mallach

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Aug 18, 2015, 6:00:03 PM8/18/15

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Hi,

El dt 18 de 08 de 2015 a les 20:41 +0200, en/na Alessandro Ghedini va
escriure:

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