[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#915125: libasound2-data: Stretch Regression: alsa.conf.d not provided and breaks crouton audio build

[Mike Fedyk]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 3:16 AM Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
>
> * Mike Fedyk <mikefedyk at gmail.com> [2018-12-01 03:04 -0600]:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> [...]
>
> >
> > Then I run dpkg as requested:
> >
> > (test-buster)root at localhost:/# dpkg -l | egrep "(libasou|alsa)"
> > ii  alsa-utils                    1.1.7-1              armhf
> > Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
> > ii  libasound2:armhf              1.1.7-1+b1           armhf
> > shared library for ALSA applications
> > ii  libasound2-data               1.1.7-1              all
> > Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers
> > ii  libasound2-dev:armhf          1.1.7-1+b1           armhf
> > shared library for ALSA applications -- development files
> >
> > Confirmation the directory is missing:
> >
> > (test-buster)root at localhost:/# ls -lhd /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d
> > ls: cannot access '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d': No such file or directory
>
> /u/s/a/alsa.conf is installed by libasound2-plugins. Please install
> libasound2-plugins and test again.
>

I know /u/s/a/alsa.conf.d is installed by libasound2-plugins, and I
referenced the other bug in my original report to say as much.

I know how to work around the problem, and I already have on one of my
systems.  I'm filing this bug report to keep from having to work
around the problem on other machines, and for others as well then they
eventually use buster with crouton.

In order to install libasound2-plugins during the chroot build, I
would have to patch crouton.  While I could do that, the build doesn't
need anything in libasound2-plugins besides the /u/s/a/alsa.conf.d
directory.  Why must libasound2-plugins be installed when the only
thing required from it is directory creation?  That goes against
minimal installs "only install what is needed, and no more"
philosophy.

Please put /u/s/a/alsa.conf.d back in libasound2-data so that minimal
installs can be minimal.