[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1149234: alsa-info requires tree(1) but there's no dependency

[Christoph Biedl]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.2.16-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian.axhn at manchmal.in-ulm.de

Greetings,

running alsa-info on Ubuntu 26.04 gave me a "/usr/sbin/alsa-info: line
679: tree: command not found". The issue exists in Debian as well, in
line 683. The tree program is provided by a package with that very same
name but alsa-utils does assert this program is available.

Solution 1: Add "tree" to Depends: as force every user of alsa-utils to
install it despite they'll rarely need it.

Solution 2: Add to Recomends: or Suggests: only, but patch alsa-info to
check first whether tree(1) is available. That's the nicer one :)

    Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.18.48 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod              34.2-2+b2
ii  libasound2t64     1.2.16.1-1
pn  libatopology2t64  <none>
ii  libc6             2.43-6
pn  libfftw3-single3  <none>
ii  libncursesw6      6.6+20260608-2
ii  libsamplerate0    0.2.2-4+b3
ii  libtinfo6         6.6+20260608-2

alsa-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages alsa-utils suggests:
ii  dialog  1.3-20260107-2

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