Bug#915696: Pulseaudio should ship /etc/alsa/conf.d/pulse.conf instead of /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: affects -1 libasound2-plugins

Including the Alsa maintainers in the loop, as this may be really a
bug on their side.

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 3:51 AM Zhong Jianxin <azuwis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 12.2-2
> Severity: important
>
> Due to alsa-plugins upstream change here[1], after libasound2-plugins
> 1.1.7, files in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d no longer load by default

This looks borked. Why did they remove this? There is no rationale in
the commit message.

Alsa maintainers, would you consider this a bug in alsa plugins? I
would think so, but unfortunately
the bug tracker link in the upstream site is dead. Where would I report that?

Files in /etc cause plenty of pain for "vendor" dropins, as the files
might exist when the package is
removed but not purged. As such, it is a much better idea to ship the
files in /usr.

>
>
> Pulseaudio should ship /etc/alsa/conf.d/pulse.conf instead of
> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf, or create symlink
> /etc/alsa/conf.d/pulse.conf -> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf.
>
> Before create the symlink:
>
>     $ amixer info
>     Card default 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xdc628000 irq 132'
>       Mixer name        : 'Realtek ALC3246'
>       Components        : 'HDA:10ec0256,10280704,00100002 HDA:80862809,80860101,00100000'
>       Controls      : 57
>       Simple ctrls  : 19
>
> After create the symlink:
>
>     $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/pulse.conf /etc/alsa/conf.d/pulse.conf
>     $ amixer info
>     Card default 'pulse'/'PulseAudio'
>       Mixer name        : 'PulseAudio'
>       Components        : ''
>       Controls      : 4
>       Simple ctrls  : 2
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-plugins/commit/93e03bdc2a3dcd5d12516f5de78e14d88a32ff2c
>
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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler