[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#243876: alsa-base: Blindly attempts to create new devices with udev.

[Scott Robinson]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.4-1
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss

ALSA attepts to create device nodes in its postinst. There is currently a
check for devfs, but not for udev.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                   1.0.4-1     Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                      1.4.22      Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                  2.8.1       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsof                         4.71-1      List open files.
ii  module-init-tools            3.0-pre10-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.26-1    Linux module utilities
ii  procps                       1:3.2.1-2   The /proc file system utilities
ii  psmisc                       21.4-1      Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
  alsa-common/card-list: 
* alsa-base/current_card: done
  alsa-base/force_stop_alsa_before_suspend: none
  alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: true
  alsa-base/card_list: done