From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Henningsson Subject: Re: Alsa-info.sh is never released Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:28:10 +0200 Message-ID: <53CE047A.7000909@canonical.com> References: <53CDFEB6.5070600@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C562654D4 for ; Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:28:11 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , adconrad@0c3.net, luke.yelavich@canonical.com List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 2014-07-22 08:21, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:03:34 +0200, > David Henningsson wrote: >> >> 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. 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. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. https://launchpad.net/~diwic