[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#287499: alsa-base: causing confusion on systems with oss

[Bernhard Reiter]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.7-2
Severity: normal


When I upgraded to alsa-base 1.0.7-2
the alias off lines in /etc/modutils/alsa-base caused me trouble by confusion.

Due to several reasons I have a bunch of kernels configured on my system
and some need to load oss sound modules. With them being "off"ed
it took me a long while to find out why it seems that my modutils were broken.
This problem is aggravated by modutils not reporting the situation
correctly when run verbosely.

I suspect that #286116 shows that several people have run into
similiar problems.

While blacklisting the oss modules in several ways seems to be the right
thing to do to avoid strange situations, I suggest that you bring
up a warning for system administrators when you install or upgrade alsa-base
with this blacklisting in place so that they are warned and know what
do to (undo the blacklisting in discover, modutils or hotplug)
before they start looking into modutils or other packages which they
suspect to be broken.

Best,
	Bernhard


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.7-2    ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                       1.4.30.11  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lsof                          4.71-1     List open files.
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-rel-2  tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities

-- debconf information excluded