[Pkg-alsa-devel] Directories created in root file system by alsa-utils

[Per]

Dear maintainers,

thank you for all the hard work you do.

On Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy), a /.pulse directory and
a /.pulse-cookie file is created. From googling, I understand this is
caused by alsa-utils. Should not these files be created in a more
suitable location?

Perhaps this is already fixed, but in the event it is not, I thought I'd
let you know.

I hope this is the right place to let you know about the issue.

Thanks again for your great work, and have a great day!

Here's the information about the package with the described behavior:
$apt-cache show alsa-utils

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.28-1
Installed-Size: 2042
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
<pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), kmod (>= 17-1~), whiptail | dialog,
libasound2 (>= 1.0.27), libc6 (>= 2.15), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20080119),
libsamplerate0 (>= 0.1.7), libtinfo5
Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
 Included tools:
  - alsactl: advanced controls for ALSA sound drivers
  - alsaloop: create loopbacks between PCM capture and playback devices
  - alsamixer: curses mixer
  - alsaucm: alsa use case manager
  - amixer: command line mixer
  - amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
  - aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
  - aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
  - aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
  - iecset: set or dump IEC958 status bits
  - speaker-test: speaker test tone generator
 .
 ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Description-md5: a4e555adf5e969eded25828df3763172
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::hardware, admin::kernel,
implemented-in::c,
 interface::text-mode, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses,
 use::configuring, works-with::audio
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.0.28-1_amd64.deb
Size: 976046
MD5sum: 305752e57f1f1ac3c4c04c5d9ca15148
SHA1: d01088f4a7b62051c724624b8fe91ba715330efd
SHA256: 33500f99a382c20240c3caae9278b0b65dcf38cbd47a398cebe616f3fbdc96d3

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.25-4
Installed-Size: 2011
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers
<pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: amd64
Provides: audio-mixer
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-9), kmod, whiptail | dialog, libasound2 (>=
1.0.25), libc6 (>= 2.8), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20080119), libsamplerate0
(>= 0.1.7), libtinfo5
Recommends: alsa-base (>= 1.0.15), pciutils
Description-en: Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
 Included tools:
  - amixer: command line mixer
  - alsamixer: curses mixer
  - amidi: read from and write to ALSA RawMIDI ports
  - aplay, arecord: command line playback and recording
  - aplaymidi, arecordmidi: command line MIDI playback and recording
  - aconnect, aseqnet, aseqdump: command line MIDI sequencer control
 .
 ALSA is the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.
Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Description-md5: ccb773c61c75de01309f6f6a8ee3621c
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::hardware, admin::kernel,
implemented-in::c,
 interface::text-mode, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses,
 use::configuring, works-with::audio
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.0.25-4_amd64.deb
Size: 1174346
MD5sum: 05fbdabb5c8bfca2bffcbf7dcb0a8b56
SHA1: 3c7d1151e7f3ab2afd1a0489151aa0d4ecd5e8ba
SHA256: 417c0ce28e657161b7f1e8496ac8156829cc5145ebfd50d3a34a4ed1d0fd551e


Best Regards, Per R.