[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#262560: marked as done (alsa-base: install creates empty /etc/modprobe.conf)

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Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.5a-1
Severity: normal


The installation of alsa-base creates and empty /etc/modprobe.conf file
which causes the modprobe of module-init-tools to ignore all files in
/etc/modprobe.d

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.5-3    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture 
ii  debconf                       1.4.29     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre5-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information excluded

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Hi,

	I've just tried to reproduce this problem on 3 machines, and
am completly unable to. Each machine neatly doesn't create an empty
/etc/modprobe.conf after installing alsa-base, so I am closing this
bug report.

Cheers,
-- 
					Steve
"I'm a doctor, not a doorstop"
         - EMH, USS Enterprise