Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base
Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> writes:
> On 9/2/2012 12:44 AM, lee wrote:
>> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:38:42 +0200, lee wrote:
>>>
>>>> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base_1.0.25+2+nmu1/changelog
>>>
>>> (...)
>>>
>>>> According to aptitude, alsa-base depends on linux-sound-base and
>>>> conflicts with linux-sound-base. So you either have to remove both of
>>>> them or keep their current versions.
>>>
>>> I don't know how you reached that conflict. I'm running wheezy and "dist-
>>> upgrade" did a good job by deleting "linux-sound-base".
>>>
>>> Also, the "linux-sound-base" dependency should not exist:
>>>
>>> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/alsa-base
>>>
>>>> So am I supposed to report this problem against alsa-base as a problem
>>>> of broken dependencies? Or should I remove both packages and
>>>> (forcefully) re-install alsa-base in case I don't have sound anymore
>>>> afterwards?
>>>>
>>>> How did you circumvent the problem?
>>>
>>> Please run "apt-get update && apt-get -V dist-upgrade" and put here the
>>> output (and don't do the upgrade yet).
>>
>> See below: that would remove linux-sound-base, upgrade 52 packages and
>> downgrade 148 packages.
>>
>> What's with all these downgrades???? Aptitude doesn't want to do these
>> downgrades and would upgrade 52 packages and remove alsa-base.
>>
>> Now I could remove linux-sound-base, that would remove alsa-base as well
>> due to dependencies. Then I guess I could install alsa-base again and
>> see what happens. What would I do if sound won't work anymore after
>> that? Perhaps I become unable to re-install alsa-base because it might
>> still depend on linux-sound-base?
>>
>
>
> I took the plunge and let it happen, and I still have sound. YMMV.
At least it's a possibility --- let's see if someone has any ideas,
especially as to what is up with all the downgrades ...
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