Bug#268041: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#268041: default/alsa config always updated

[Steve Kowalik]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:09:28 +0100, Dick Middleton uttered
> Whenever alsa is updated (apt-get upgrade) it always replaces 
> /etc/default/alsa thus replacing my chosen settings.  This is despite a 
> catagorical 'N' response to the dpkg request for update or not. The file 
> /etc/init.d/alsa is not updated.
> 
> The setting that is most important to me to preserve is 
> alsactl_store_on_shutdown which I always have as "never autosave".
> 
It's probably debconf rewriting the file. Could you dpkg-reconfigure
alsa-base, and see if the answers in the debconf database are
different to /etc/default/alsa?

Cheers,
-- 
					Steve
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