Comment 3 for bug 11923

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:45PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> I am rating this "minor" because it's a documentation issue, not
> necessarily because I think it's a minor documentation issue. :)

Because it leads to modules not being loaded
and a hard to diagnose situation in other modulues only be upgrading,
I would say it is more then "minor" or documentation only:
It breaks real installations and eats up system administrator's time.

> 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.

On a regular upgrade, people will not inspect README.Debian
or the packages description of a package, this does not ease the problem.

 Bernhard