Re: Shouldn't kernel-image-2.6.x-y-z depend on alsa-base ?
The ALSA maintenance team has just released alsa-driver version
1.0.8+1.0.9rc2-1 to experimental. This includes a new binary
package linux-sound-base which takes over from alsa-base the job
of blacklisting OSS modules when installed. The capability has
been added to it to blacklist ALSA modules instead, or to
blacklist neither OSS nor ALSA. The choice among these is
controlled via debconf; thus the adminstrator should run
dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base
to change sound systems. The default selection is ALSA because
the package is pulled in via alsa-base's Depends.
We think that it would be appropriate for 2.6 kernel-image
packages also to Depend on linux-sound-base. ALSA is already
considered to be the default for 2.6, so the addition of the
linux-sound-base package should not break anything. The
benefit afforded by the package is that it prevents unholy
mixtures of OSS and ALSA modules from being loaded (a problem
which is generating lots of bug reports).
2.4 kernel-image packages, on the other hand, should not Depend
on linux-sound-base.
--
Thomas Hood
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