Package: alsa-base Version: 1.0.15-1 Severity: important Hello,
with today's dist-upgrade I noticed that it removed "alsa-utils". I found this odd so I decided to investigate why it got removed. It turns out that aptitude removed it because "it was no more needed". In effect, right now alsa-utils is available at version 1.0.14-2 and alsa-base got just upgraded to 1.0.15-1. But alsa-base has this Recommends field: Recommends: alsa-utils (>= 1.0.15-1) So the recommends doesn't apply to the package currently installed and aptitude thinks nobody needs the current alsa-utils so it gets removed. Please replace that versioned Recommends with a non-versioned one. The version doesn't enforce anything as Recommends is an optional dependency and just creates problems like this one. So to sum up, I suggest to use: Recommends: alsa-utils Submitting as important since this lead to the loss of the startup configuration... -- Package-specific info: --- Begin additional package status --- Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder | État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé |/ Err?=(aucune)/H=à garder/besoin Réinstallation/X=les deux (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais) ||/ Nom Version Description +++-=================-=================-================================================== ii libasound2 1.0.14a-2 ALSA library --- End additional package status --- --- Begin /proc/asound/version --- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC). --- End /proc/asound/version --- --- Begin /proc/asound/cards --- 0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6 Intel ICH6 with STAC9750,51 at irq 16 1 [Modem ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel ICH6 Modem Intel ICH6 Modem at irq 18 --- End /proc/asound/cards --- --- Begin /dev/snd/ listing --- total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 0 2007-09-11 14:55 controlC0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 32 2007-09-11 14:55 controlC1 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 24 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 16 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 25 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D1c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 26 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D2c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 27 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D3c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 20 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC0D4p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 56 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC1D0c crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 48 2007-09-11 14:55 pcmC1D0p crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 2007-09-11 14:55 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 2007-09-11 14:55 timer --- End /dev/snd/ listing --- -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages alsa-base depends on: ii linux-sound-base 1.0.15-1 base package for ALSA and OSS soun ii lsof 4.78.dfsg.1-3 List open files ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-4 tools for managing Linux kernel mo Versions of packages alsa-base recommends: pn alsa-utils <none> (no description available) Versions of packages libasound2 depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries -- no debconf information