[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#357106: alsaconf modifies modules.conf unrelatedly

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.8-4
Severity: grave

(note, I'm running Sarge)

Running alsaconf, my modules.conf was modified:

-alias net-pf-10 off            # IPv6
+# alias net-pf-10 off          # IPv6

It did ask for modification of modules.conf, but not to actually enable
IPv6 on my machine, something some services over here break under.

alsaconf should definitely not modify a configuration file with totally
unrelated modifications, without very clearly asking to.

Also, there is no dry-run option what would list the proposed
modifications, and alsaconf is very chatty. While nice, in most cases I
guess it can be much less so, and actually with only slight
modifications cause sound to work out-of-the-box: autodetected at
bootup, without writing anything to a configuration file?

Thanks,
--Jeroen

PS: I *do* like alsaconf, because it actually makes sound config very
trivial (if you happen to know about alsaconf), thanks for that :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  alsa-base                   1.0.8-7      ALSA driver configuration files
ii  libasound2                  1.0.8-3      ALSA library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  module-init-tools           3.2-pre1-2   tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                    2.4.26-1.2   Linux module utilities
ii  pciutils                    1:2.1.11-15  Linux PCI Utilities
ii  whiptail                    0.51.6-20    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- no debconf information

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
jeroen at wolffelaar.nl
http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl