[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#446953: Bug#446953: linux-sound-base simply obsolete?

[Elimar Riesebieter]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 the mental interface of
Adrian Bunk told:

> I also ran into this issue ("linux-sound-base depends on udev"),
> and I also don't want to switch to udev (static /dev is working fine).
> 
> I'd suggest a different solution:
> 
> linux-sound-base is becoming obsolete and therefore a good candidate for 
> being removed before lenny.

OK.

> Hardware not supported by ALSA but supported by OSS only covers some ISA 
> cards plus some exotic hardware (read: not PCs).

In 1.0.15 we've got a very new ISA driver ;)

> The OSS modules are becoming more and more unpopular, also due to the 
> fact that most applications now support ALSA, and some applications 
> (especially non-free ones) not or no longer support OSS.
>
> The amount of overlap of hardware support between ALSA and OSS is 
> already greatly reduced in recent kernels and is being reduced further.
> 
> The few OSS kernels modules currently present that overlap with ALSA 
> regarding hardware support could be either no longer being built in the 
> kernel images or always blacklisted in Debian (unless the user manually 
> removes a blacklist entry).

I would suggest to set udev to Recommends: in alsa-utils package
which is recommended by the alsa-base package and remove the
dependency from linux-sound-base then.

Elimar

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