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

[Takashi Sakamoto]

Hi,

On Oct 24 2017 20:06, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 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.

In debian upstream, libasound2 package based on alsa-lib v1.1.4 is not
released yet[1]. I think you tried packaging by yourself.

As long as I know, for the 'alsa.conf' file itself, alsa-lib doesn't get
any change. Furthermore, as long as I generate libasound2 package based
on alsa-lib v1.1.4.1 release with handy-modified debian stuffs from
v1.1.3 package, I cannot reproduce the bug.

$ dpkg-deb -c ../libasound2_1.1.4-1_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1087656 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2.0.0
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12 ./usr/share/doc/libasound2/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       841 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/NEWS.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     18612 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root    119241 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1560 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2879 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples/asoundrc.txt.gz
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2017-02-14 04:12
./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2 -> libasound.so.2.0.0

I doubt that you have some mistakes in your procedure to packaging for
it. Anyway, this doesn't matter to ALSA upstream. Please have
conversation in any debian community activity.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libasound2


Regards

Takashi Sakamoto