[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#746799: Bug#746799: alsa-base: Depends: kmod but it is not going to be installed

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Marco d'Itri <md at linux.it> [2014-05-05 13:57 +0200]:

> On May 05, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> 
> > The last item is confusing: is the goal to uninstall the alsa-base
> > package because it is no longer useful with kmod installed (but
> > there's no "Replaces:"), or should one wait for an alsa-base update?
> Either choice is fine: a dummy alsa-base package will be uploaded later 
> to help having smoother upgrades.

alsa-base 1.0.25+3 installs:

/etc
/etc/modprobe.d
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf

The modeprobe stuff is AFAIK merged to kmod

/etc/default
/etc/default/alsa-base

This is useful for apmd powermanagement. Since lenny kernels are not
built with APM support anymore it should be useless for jessie.

/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/alsa

This is a relict from alsa-driver package to have some snd-mod
handling:
Usage: /usr/sbin/alsa {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume}

This isn't used by any Debian package. If a user want to unlosd
snd-mod's one must handle it with modprobe.


/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/NEWS.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/copyright
/usr/share/doc/alsa-base/README.Debian

Hints for Handling of multiple cards can be adapted to alsa-utils
README.Debian.

/usr/share/bug
/usr/share/bug/alsa-base
/usr/share/bug/alsa-base/presubj
/usr/share/bug/alsa-base/control
/usr/share/bug/alsa-base/script
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/alsa-base
/usr/share/alsa-base

Only package managing.

So yes, why not orphan alsa-base for Jessie?

Elimar
-- 
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