[alsa-devel] conflict between alsa-lib and libasound2-data regarding alsa.conf file:

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 18:58 +0200, arne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Debian conflicts between alsa-lib_1.1.4 and libasound2-data 1.1.3:
> 
> in the source tree of alsa-lib I do:
> 
> ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall
> 
> and the result is:
> 
> Unpacking alsa-lib (1.1.4.1-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> archive /home/temp/alsa-lib-1.1.4.1/alsa-lib_1.1.4.1-1_amd64.deb
> (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf', which is
> also in package libasound2-data 1.1.3-5

This is a Debian packaging issue. It's better to contact the Debian
alsa-lib package maintainer(s) directly.

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