Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:56:29 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:20:02 +0200
> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
(...)
> 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:
Where's that patch coming from?
> /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
If package "linux-sound-base" has been dropped and this generates an
error in your system, you better report it, there can be corner cases
where problems arise and they need to be properly addressed.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
Reply to: