Bug#339804: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#339804: alsa-base: Running reportbug after dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

[Thomas Hood]

Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> If alsa-base is installed in the required version prior to upgrading to 
> the latest version of udev, which implies purging hotplug, then 
> alsa-base is not running it's configuration which means the 
> configuration will be configure according to how it should be done when 
> hotplug is handling devices which must be done differently. E.g the 
> relation between udev and alsa-base is never activated. To solve this 
> problem it would require that if the new udev package recognizes that 
> alsa-base does not need to be upgraded but hotplug must be purge then a 
> reconfiguration of alsa-base is necessary. 


I don't fully understand this explanation.

Did you dist-upgrade to sarge at some point in the past?

-- 
Thomas Hood