[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#680914: alsa-base: conffile name confusion: /etc/default/alsa-base vs, /etc/default/alsa

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> There was a config file /etc/default/alsa for months. But after
> upgrading alsa-base from 1.0.23+dfsg-4 to 1.0.25+2+nmu1, a new
> config file /etc/default/alsa-base has been installed, keeping
> /etc/default/alsa with the same contents (up to a blank line).
To make things worse, the script /usr/sbin/alsa (which, btw, lacks a
manpage) uses /etc/default/alsa. However, if I install just the unstable
(1.0.25+2+nmu1) alsa-base package, only /etc/default/alsa-base gets
created, so the script is non-functional. I assume that the goal was to
actually rename the file in /etc/default to match the package name, but
then of course its users must be changed, too.

Kind regards,
Ralf