alsaconf missing from alsa-utils
Bug #29597 reported by
Rocco Stanzione
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Alsa utilities |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
alsa-utils (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The alsaconf utility seems to have been deliberately omitted from alsa-utils. I can't imagine why, but there is a comment in debian/rules making it clear that it's no accident. This tool makes life easier for users of ISA soundcards and for myself as a user of multiple soundcards (it automates the selection of the sound card and driver to use). Could we restore this functionality to the package? Thanks.
Changed in alsa-utils: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Rejected |
Changed in alsa-utils: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
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Discovered this thread explaining the motivation for removing alsaconf: www.ubuntuforum s.org/showthrea d.php?t= 52941
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I'd like to add that I see a lot of support traffic on #ubuntu wondering where alsaconf is. They come from other distros, or they read documentation online that tells them to run it. While ubuntu has arguably better solutions for sound configuration, and while alsaconf apparently introduces some packaging difficulty, it's a useful utility and I think its inclusion would solve more problems (from an end-user point of view) than it causes (from a maintainer perspective).