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Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base



On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:29:20PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 05 sep 12, 00:04:24, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 07:31:34AM +0200, lee wrote:
> > 
> > > And how about the ones that aren't available in Debian?
> > 
> > You can build them yourself using the build dependencies from Debian.
> > If you go that route then that is when you'll need the "deb-src" entries
> > in your sources list. There are some guides on the net:
> 
> Hmm, are you sure about this?

oops, apologies. No that was a brain fart. Sorry, for some reason I was
thinking of needing a later package than the one available in Debian.

> As far as I can tell the deb-src line is needed only for the actual 
> source and for 'apt-get build-dep' to figure out the build dependencies 
> (since they are only available in the source package.

Yeah, <sigh>, thanks for catching it.

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