[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#280988: alsa-base should suggest or recommend alsa-oss

[Andreas Janssen]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.6a-10
Severity: wishlist


More or less accidentially I found out that there is an alsa-oss package
that is needed to make the oss compatibility layer work properly.
Without it some apps did not work correctly. E.g. tuxracer went into
uninterruptable sleep when I loaded it the first time. After killing X
and starting turracer again, it worked. Of course, the first tuyracer
process remained untill I rebooted. Installing alsa-oss solved the
problem. My problem was that I didn't even know the package existed. The
alsa-oss packge has absolutely no reverse depends, so I think some kind
of dependency would help users notice that the package is there and to
make sound work properly for OSS-only applications.

best regards
	Andreas Janssen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-custom
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.6-4    ALSA utilities
ii  debconf                       1.4.30.10  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  module-init-tools             3.1-pre6-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                      2.4.26-1.1 Linux module utilities
ii  psmisc                        21.5-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

-- debconf information:
* alsa-base/alsactl_store_on_shutdown: always autosave