Alsa-info.sh is never released

Alsa-info.sh is never released

[David Henningsson]

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?



-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic

Re: Alsa-info.sh is never released

[Takashi Iwai]

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.


Takashi

Re: Alsa-info.sh is never released

[David Henningsson]

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

Re: Alsa-info.sh is never released

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:28:10 +0200,
David Henningsson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.

OK, I put alsa-info.sh to alsa-utils git repo now.

Jaroslav, could you relink on www.alsa-project.org?


Takashi