[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1051901: libasound2: 1.2.10 breaks ability to run i386 WINE on an amd64 host

[Antoine Le Gonidec]

Package: libasound2
Version: 1.2.10-1
Severity: important

Since the alsa-lib 1.2.9-2 → 1.2.10 upgrade, trying to run an i386 game
through WINE results in a game crash. This is not specific to some game,
it happened with all games I tried with this release of alsa-lib.

amd64 WINE does not seem to be affected, during my tests the breakages
were specifif to i386 WINE.

As an extra symptom, if at the moment I try to start a game I have some
music playing in the background, using mpd [1], the playback will stop
and mpd will start using 100% of a CPU core until it is killed.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/sid/mpd

Downgrading libasound2:amd64, libasound2:i386 and libasound2-data to
1.2.9-2 seems to get rid of these unexpected crashes. The other packages
built from the alsa-lib source can stay in the 1.2.10-1 version with no
noticeable breakage.

PS: I wanted to report this bug with severity "serious" due to the
breakage of other software, but reportbug would not let me do that
without quoting some part of the Debian Policy Manual, and I could not
find anything in this manual about not breaking unrelated software.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libasound2 depends on:
ii  libasound2-data  1.2.10-1
ii  libc6            2.37-8

libasound2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libasound2 suggests:
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.2.7.1-1+b1

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