[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1125915: Creates an empty directory in an aliased location

[Michael Biebl]

Source: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.15.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: elbrus at debian.org
User: helmutg at debian.org
Usertags: udeb-usrmove

Hi,

your package produces a udeb (alsa-utils-udeb) which creates an empty
directory in an aliased location:

lib/debian-installer-startup.d/

Shipping files/directories in aliased locations is no longer allowed an
will trigger the "aliased-location" error
which will prevent testing migration going forward.

This directory is created via debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs, and while the
udeb package was updated in 1.2.10-1.1 to use non-aliased locations for
its files, this particular spot was missed apparently.

Seeing that debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs is not actually needed, the
attached debdiff simply drops this file.


Please consider to apply the attached change with your next upload.

Regards,
Michael
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diff -Nru alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs
--- alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs	2024-03-04 00:08:09.000000000 +0100
+++ alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-lib/debian-installer-startup.d
-usr/bin
-usr/sbin
diff -Nru alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/changelog alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/changelog
--- alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/changelog	2026-01-08 00:25:12.000000000 +0100
+++ alsa-utils-1.2.15.1/debian/changelog	2026-01-18 20:42:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+alsa-utils (1.2.15.1-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload.
+  * Drop debian/alsa-utils-udeb.dirs.
+    It's not actually needed and produces a directory in an aliased location,
+    which is no longer allowed (Closes: #-1)
+
+ -- Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>  Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:42:02 +0100
+
 alsa-utils (1.2.15.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream release.