Bug#232513: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#232513: alsa-utils should depend on modutils or module-init-tools

David B Harris 232513@bugs.debian.org, 232513@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:35:23 -0500


tags 232513 + pending
thanks

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:51:46 -0800
"Ken Joseph" <o123@netian.com> wrote:
> alsa-utils should depend on either modutils or module-init-tools.
> For people using kernel 2.6, the current alsa-utils package forces
> them to install modutils which causes problem loading modules for 2.6
> kernels. That's because modutils is not intended for use with 2.6 kernels.
> Therefore, alsa-utils should allow people to choose between
> modutils and module-init-tools.

This has already been fixed in CVS, an upload is pending.

Worth noting that you can have both modutils and module-init-tools
installed at the same time, so this (not perfect) dependency shouldn't
stop you from using the package.