Comment 12 for bug 11923

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <1104440505.15291.66.camel@thanatos>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:01:45 +0100
From: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#287499: alsa-base: causing confusion on
 systems with oss

severity 287499 minor
thanks

I am rating this "minor" because it's a documentation issue, not
necessarily because I think it's a minor documentation issue. :)

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 11:27 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> While blacklisting the oss modules in several ways seems to be the right
> thing to do to avoid strange situations, I suggest that you bring
> up a warning for system administrators when you install or upgrade alsa-base
> with this blacklisting in place so that they are warned and know what
> do to (undo the blacklisting in discover, modutils or hotplug)
> before they start looking into modutils or other packages which they
> suspect to be broken.

The package description already mentions this issue. I could discuss it
further in README.Debian I suppose.

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Thomas Hood <email address hidden>