Bug#905774: jackd2: jackd no longer starts, since device is already in use; but who's using it?

[Francesco Poli]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:34:52 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> Quoting Francesco Poli (2018-08-09 19:07:50)
[...]
> > All this makes perfectly sense: timidity pulled timidity-daemon by 
> > recommendation. Moreover recently, the recommendation has been turned 
> > into a suggestion.
> 
> If I am not mistaken about english grammar...
> <nitpicking>
> either it "perfectly makes sense" or it "makes perfect sense"
> </nitpicking>

I think you're right, thanks for correcting me!

> 
> 
> > OK, this leaves me with the need to understand why package "timidity" 
> > is installed on that machine, while it is not on the other similar 
> > one. I am pretty sure I haven't installed timidity by hand...
> 
> I cannot tell how your system specifically ended in that state, but 
> timidity historically got auto-installed frequently (to me) like this:
> 
>  $stuff → libsdl-mixer1.2 → freepats → timidity
> 
> My guess is that somehow (e.g. by using aptitude back when it had its 
> own its own independent tracking of auto-installed packages which then 
> got merged when APT grew support for that - I experienced some loss of 
> flags during that period) your system lost the auto-install flag for 
> timidity-daemon, keeping it around beyond removal of other packages and 
> package relationships getting relaxed.

It could be, except that timidity-daemon still had the auto-install
flag and timidity has it as well...



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