Comment 4 for bug 510889

I have investigated further and I see that 'alsa-firmware' is not a sub-project of 'alsa' in launchpad.

A serious oversight imho.

How does one have 'alsa-firmware' added permanently as a project under 'alsa'

I have no idea how this works. The actual process of installing it in a target machine is relatively simple.
Integrating it into the distribution as a binary package - I don't know.

Here's hoping