Package: beep Version: 1.4.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #922667 Dear Maintainer,
I tried adding my user to the beep group, but nothing changed. Then I read everything in /usr/share/doc/beep/INSTALL.md and here are my thoughts, Before adding my user to the beep group, I had to create that group. I did that, but still no beep. Why? Because before making the group, I had to make the relevant udev rule. I created it too, I rebooted, bust still no beep. Why? Because I also had to change the device permissions, but I have no idea how to to that. I tried whatever is suggested in the instructions but all I get is this bit # ls -lH /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr crw-rw---- 1 root input 13, 67 Feb 20 09:00 /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr- event-spkr # getfacl /dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/input/by-path/platform-pcspkr-event-spkr # owner: root # group: input user::rw- group::rw- other::--- Maybe I am doing something wrong. But I think most, if not all, of this stuff can be ommited if you provide the udev rule, make the group and change the device permissions upon the install of the package. On top of that, I think all that setup is a tedius job for something that, for me at least, is used for a few milliseconds each time (I use beep to make an audible notification for when transmission-daemon completes a download). The 1.3.x version was literally plug-n-play, because, after installing it, I could use pcspkr with it instantly, with no extra setup at all. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages beep depends on: ii libc6 2.28-7 beep recommends no packages. beep suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
