Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

[Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:20:02 +0200
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:24:46 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
>> linux-sound-base gets removed on the upgrade and replaced with alsa-base

> What "upgrade" are you referring to? Sid?
 
Yes, sid, AKA unstable:  alsa-base 1.0.25+2+nmu1

> Mmmm, it has to be something related with:
 
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base_1.0.25+2+nmu1/changelog
>    * Drop linux-sound-base: OSS was removed from the kernel pre-squeeze.
>      (closes: #662038). Remove all module list generation machinery,
>      it's now obsolete.
>    * Removing linux-sound-base also closes: #376241, #558408 the hard way.
> 
> Review the referenced bug reports and if there's nothing that solves the 
> problem you're facing you can report it.

Thanks for this help..the information is still tediously cryptic like apply a patch
by Helmar Gerloni to test for the existence of directories before trying to remove:

/etc/apm/suspend.d    Does not exist anyway (in Filerunner the venerable file
manager)

/etc/apm/scripts.d/alsa    This isn't there either

dpkg-maintscript-helper  says:

# dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile/etc/apm/scripts.d/alsa
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: command rm_conffile/etc/apm/scripts.d/alsa is
unknown

> Greetings,

Salutations,

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CK