[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#451266: The solution

[Alter Ego]

Well, I did further research about the "solution" suggested by Elimar.
Elimar suggestion is even worse than I initially thought. As a matter of 
fact, his instructions do not actually set up pinning; they'll end up in 
me upgrading to unstable!

With the due respect, It's a completely non-sense to ask someone to 
change to another version just in order to (eventually) solve a bug that 
it shouldn't exist in the first place.

It's like asking a Windows XP user to upgrade to Vista in order to solve 
a Windows bug...

Well, back on track...

I did find the solution to this bug. It's very simple:

# cd /etc/modprobe.d
# mv alsa-base alsa-base.bak
# mv alsa-base.dpkg-old alsa-base

At some point of the abobe-mentioned safe-upgrade, aptitude showed me 
this message:

Setting up alsa-base (1.0.15-2) ...

Configuration file `/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base'
 ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
 ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
      D     : show the differences between the versions
....

I didn't modified /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base, so I chose the option 
"install the package maintainer's version".
And the bug in question resides on the package maintainer's version.
Choosing the option "keep your currently-installed version" would have 
avoided the bug.

So, to solve the problem all I needed to do was to put back the original 
"alsa-base", hence the command "mv alsa-base.dpkg-old alsa-base".

In the future package developers (and maintainers) should pay more 
attention to the contents of file "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base", before 
introducing new alsa versions.

regards,
JJCale