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

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.25+2+nmu1
Severity: normal

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).

The /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/changelog.gz file says:

alsa-base (1.0.25+2) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
    - stop installing a default file in /usr/share and make
      /etc/default/alsa a real conffile.

but "dpkg -s alsa-base" outputs:

[...]
Conffiles:
 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf a7a32d5a17e1ae3bf9053345f2eb40e6
 /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf 7b763f6869f0a6568a3db9e7415a4768
 /etc/default/alsa-base 73825e30488fdf76613432c0f3408682
[...]

-- Package-specific info:
--- Begin additional package status ---
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  libasound2:amd 1.0.25-3     amd64        shared library for ALSA applicati
--- End additional package status ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/version ---
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.25.
--- End /proc/asound/version ---
--- Begin /proc/asound/cards ---
 0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xf6fdc000 irq 47
--- End /proc/asound/cards ---
--- Begin /dev/snd/ listing ---
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root       60 2012-07-06 01:52:41 by-path
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  6 2012-07-06 01:52:41 controlC0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  5 2012-07-06 01:52:41 hwC0D0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  4 2012-07-06 01:52:41 hwC0D1
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  3 2012-07-09 02:04:46 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  2 2012-07-09 02:04:46 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116,  1 2012-07-06 01:52:40 seq
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 33 2012-07-06 01:52:38 timer
--- End /dev/snd/ listing ---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-base depends on:
ii  kmod    9-1
ii  procps  1:3.3.3-2
ii  udev    175-3.1

Versions of packages alsa-base recommends:
ii  alsa-utils  1.0.25-3

Versions of packages alsa-base suggests:
pn  alsa-oss    <none>
ii  oss-compat  2

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libc6              2.13-34
ii  multiarch-support  2.13-34

Versions of packages libasound2 suggests:
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.0.25-2

-- no debconf information