Bugzilla Bug 181042

Released on 6 Jun 2007, alsa-driver, alsa-modules and alsa-utils is no longer
at 1.0.14-r3, but rather 1.0.14 final.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
n/a
Actual Results:  
n/a

Expected Results:  
alsa-driver-1.0.14 is masked in portage, allowing me to merge it with ~arch.

Please don't do this... seriously, it's pretty rude.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap6 (Zero-day bump
requests)

*** Bug 182472 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 183180 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*  media-libs/alsa-lib
Bumped to 1.0.14a

*  media-libs/alsa-oss
Bumped to 1.0.14

*  media-plugins/alsa-plugins
Bumped to 1.0.14

*  media-sound/alsa-driver
Needs testing for outstanding bugs; also, this will be discontinued later. Will
need to consider what message to put on here, and whether to release one last
1.0.14 ebuild.

*  media-sound/alsa-firmware
Bumped to 1.0.14

*  media-sound/alsa-headers
Bumped to 1.0.14

*  media-sound/alsa-tools
Bumped to 1.0.14

*  media-sound/alsa-utils
Bumped to 1.0.14

Please try your soundcard on in-kernel ALSA drivers, as briefly mentioned
above, the use of the alsa-driver ebuild is no longer recommended. The ALSA
guide will be updated to reflect this shortly.

(In reply to comment #4)
> *  media-sound/alsa-driver
> Needs testing for outstanding bugs; also, this will be discontinued later. Will
> need to consider what message to put on here, and whether to release one last
> 1.0.14 ebuild.
>
...
> 
> Please try your soundcard on in-kernel ALSA drivers, as briefly mentioned
> above, the use of the alsa-driver ebuild is no longer recommended. The ALSA
> guide will be updated to reflect this shortly.

Are you kidding? Can you give just one good reason to use mostly outdated
in-kernel drivers even in recent kernels?
I don't like to use old in-kernel alsa-drivers with newest
alsa-{lib,utils,oss}. 
Even the alsa-guys recommend to stay in sync with all alsa components and to
not mix versions up...

(In reply to comment #5)
> Are you kidding? 

No.

> Can you give just one good reason to use mostly outdated
> in-kernel drivers even in recent kernels?

Certainly, bug #171872, bug #171872, bug #175699, bug #177357, having to
recompile additional packages after a kernel recompilation and people managing
to break compilation or assemble a desynced set of libs & drivers that emits no
sound and segfaults.   

> I don't like to use old in-kernel alsa-drivers with newest
> alsa-{lib,utils,oss}.

Then perhaps you should run newer kernels if you want to live on the edge...

> 
> Then perhaps you should run newer kernels if you want to live on the edge...
> 

Or not. Even the newest (unstable) 2.6.22rc6 kernel only has alsa-driver
version 1.0.14rc3. So which kernel would you recommend I upgrade to? With that
said, certainly you wouldn't want (I know I don't want) to have a completely
unstable system just to get bleeding edge sound support. I'm going to have to
agree with Lars on this one.

> I'm going to have to agree with Lars on this one.

Please note that this bug is about bumping ALSA to 1.0.14; which is happening.
If you want to have a discussion about ALSA support in Gentoo, then the
gentoo-dev mailing list is the place for that.
However, do note that the opinion of the people actually doing the work may
matter most in the end.

(In reply to comment #8)
> However, do note that the opinion of the people actually doing the work may
> matter most in the end.

Then the wrong people are doing the work...

Very well, ALSA components bumped, no alsa-driver upgrade until further notice.

This is not something I'd call as FIXED:

# emerge -uDpv world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies /
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been 
!!! pulled into the dependency graph:


('installed', '/', 'media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.14_rc3', 'nomerge') pulled in
by
  ('installed', '/', 'media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc3', 'nomerge')

('ebuild', '/', 'media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.14', 'merge') pulled in by
  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.14a', 'merge')

Open a separate bug if you are impatient about alsa-driver, update blocked by
bugs #171872 and #182773.

(In reply to comment #12)
> Open a separate bug if you are impatient about alsa-driver, update blocked by
> bugs #171872 and #182773.

Joking? Update is blocked by a bug that this update will solve?

17:16:58 <+CIA-24> chainsaw * gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-driver/ (3 files in 2
dirs): 
17:16:58 <+CIA-24> Version bump, closes bug #171872. Clean-up of older ALSA
modules will now be nice and silent thanks to András                  
<bogar@hej.hu>, closes bug #182773.