Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.1.8-2
Severity: important
In short:
Please release 1.1.8-3 it to Debian Buster!
1.1.8-3 indeed solves the issue from what I can see for Debian Bullseye.
Also the original issue has been solved, the currently available
alsa-utils package (on Bullseye) does not contain the faulty
"ConditionPathExists=/var/lib/alsa/asound.state" in alsa-restore.service
that was introduced basically here:
https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-utils/-/commit/f1eba0b5deb6c3988d6dd7317ccc931c09792843
What I don't understand now is that this code is still present on every
Git repository in https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-utils.
Even more strange is that, while this code has been committed in end of
2017, it has been identified as faulty (patch that time) already at the
beginning of 2017 where the patch has been skipped in v1.1.3-1:
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.1.3-1_changelog
So since for me how all this back and forth did not work well and caused
quite major issues, I opened a merge request to remove/revert the faulty
commit: https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-utils/-/merge_requests/4
I can only guess that there is currently some patch which removes it but
since this didn't survive in the past, I think it's better to have it
clear and transparent in the repo code base.
Last but not least what I can absolutely not understand is that while
1.1.8-2 causes a major issue and 1.1.8-3 fixed it over a year ago, why
this has not been merged into Buster until now. The changelog shows
1.1.8-2 and 1.1.8-2 timestamps only 23 seconds apart:
https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/a/alsa-utils/alsa-utils_1.2.3-1_changelog
So it seems that the issue has been immediately identified (makes sense,
as it is so obvious) and merged moreless in the same run, at least into
changelog. But for some strange reason that fix was never merged into
Buster and I cannot even see a Git branch for 1.1.8-3. Has it somehow
been lost as last minute commit, coming too late? There was been some
back and forth when merging to "unstable" that time, see the history:
https://salsa.debian.org/alsa-team/alsa-utils/-/tree/0dee89e615d5bdba8c5f573aad0162b8354ad710
=> Please release 1.1.8-3 it to Debian Buster!
Best regards,
Micha
