Package: libasound2 Priority: optional Version: 1.0.26-1 Source: alsa-lib Architecture: __ARCH__ Maintainer: Paul A. Whittaker Section: Libraries Destination: usr Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) Description: Userspace API for interfacing with kernel ALSA (audio) drivers Applications need this library in order to make use of Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) features. . Although ALSA has replaced OSS, ALSA drivers can provide backward compatible OSS emulation for applications that are not ALSA-ware. In embedded contexts, OSS is usually preferred even when an ALSA option is available, because the OSS API doesn't require this large library.