I’ve just punted all the old ALSA ebuilds from the tree. Tah tah. I thought they needed to be in there for old kernel compatiblity, but it turns out I was wrong. Ah well. The less versions to worry about, the better (from a support point-of-view).
We’re going to look at getting 1.0.20 stable here pretty quickly, and then remove *all* the old versions after that.
Oh, and if you are interested in helping out with ALSA bugs, that’d be nicely appreciated as well.
One other note — I added media-sound/alsa-driver, which is the external modules for the ALSA drivers, into package.mask. The concept is simply to add a hurdle to users wanting to use it, and to make it clear it won’t be landing in stable-ville anytime soon. However, there are no plans to remove it from the tree, either. I know some people like to use it, so there ya go.
How can I help debug alsa? Linux would pretty much be useless to me without it, so… Just curious as to how I can help the debugging process…?
Oh, the usual … if you find a bug, please file a report on bugs.gentoo.org. For any users that wanted to help out more, our documentation could always use tweaking too.
As long as users don’t just huddle on the forums / ML / IRC / caves and not tell devs about the problems they run into, we should be fine.
@ Jason
You can start helping Alsa here:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/login_page.php