[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1059872: alsa-ucm-conf should be a required package, it's essential on some sound hardware

[Abou Al Montacir]

Package: alsa-ucm-conf
Version: 1.2.14-1
Followup-For: Bug #1059872

Dear Maintainer,

I've upgraded my laptop (HP Spectre 13) from Bookworm to Trixie. The microphone
was no more detected on Gnome environment, and the HDMI sound output was also
broken.

I've spent my weekend trying to fix this with many workarounds on different
forums that may or not work. However, I discovered by chance that this package
was missing. Installing this package, magically solved all my sound issues.

I consider then that this package is essential for a working environment.
Considering the time I've spent on discovering this, despite my experience of
25 years on Debian, I would expect a normal user to give up before he gets this
solved.

So, I'd be grateful, if this kind of issue does not appear anymore for any
Debian user. This package is only 1.4MB, and should be affordable on any new
laptop.

Thanks for maintaining this awesome package.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.43+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages alsa-ucm-conf depends on:
ii libasound2t64 1.2.14-1

alsa-ucm-conf recommends no packages.

alsa-ucm-conf suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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