Package: timidity Version: 2.14.0-8 Followup-For: Bug #902330 Timidity breaks pulseaudio's built-in Analog stereo device AD1989B (Intel HDA) by blocking pulseaudio's device access so that the built-in device is not seen by pulseaudio. It does so without any warning to the user. As pulseaudio is the common audio foundation of many linux systems any new package installation (or upgrade) that has the potential to disrupt an existing pulseaudio installation should result in a clear blocking warning to the user. This problem can be remedied by killing the timidity daemon and uninstalling the timidity package - that however should not be neccessary as it should not have been installed in the first place. Even for a veteran of linux audio problems like myself it took some time to pin down the root cause of the pulseaudio problem. I'm not suggesting a technical fix or policy fix, but it's clear that installation of a new package should not break the proper functioning of an already installed high profile package like pulseaudio.
-- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.6.14 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages timidity depends on: ii libao4 1.2.2+20180113-1.1 ii libasound2 1.2.4-1.1 ii libc6 2.31-11 ii libflac8 1.3.3-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1 ii libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125] 1.9.17~dfsg-1 ii libncurses6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libogg0 1.3.4-0.1 ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3 ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1 ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1.2-1.1 ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libvorbis0a 1.3.7-1 ii libvorbisenc2 1.3.7-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.7.0-2 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1.1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1.1 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2+b3 ii libxt6 1:1.2.0-1 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2 Versions of packages timidity recommends: ii fluid-soundfont-gm 3.1-5.2 Versions of packages timidity suggests: pn fluid-soundfont-gs <none> ii freepats 20060219-3 pn pmidi <none> pn timidity-daemon <none>
