Package: libasound2-data Version: 1.0.28-1 Followup-For: Bug #500509 This is still a problem. While /etc/alsa.conf may not make sense because it is a "default configuration", now stuff like pulseaudio jumped into the fray and now configures pulseaudio automaticall to fire up whenever you talk to alsa, through /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/*.conf files.
If i want pulseaudio installed, but want to turn that freaking thing off, it's basically impossible because the changes will be overwritten on upgrade. Similarly, it's impossible to change the default alsa config that way. Config files belong to /etc, i believe this is a pretty clear Policy we have, no? The problem with the current approach is discoverability - until i found out about the Debian wiki article describing the way PA was overriding ALSA, i had *no* idea there was a ALSA configuration directory, because there was nothing in /etc/alsa* thanks for reconsidering -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) libasound2-data depends on no packages. libasound2-data recommends no packages. Versions of packages libasound2-data suggests: ii alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 -- no debconf information
