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1 alsa-utils (1.0.19-1) unstable; urgency=low 2 3 This upload removes alsaconf and asoundconf, two scripts which 4 could be used to modify certain ALSA parametres, as they caused 5 more problems than provided solutions, were outdated and generally 6 useless. 7 8 alsaconf was upstream's way to detect sound cards and generate 9 system-wide ALSA configurations. However, this should have been 10 unnecessary for a very long time, with the introduction of udev 11 support and its automatic hardware detection. If this isn't the 12 case for you, it's a bug which should be filed and fixed properly. 13 14 asoundconf was a tool introduced by Ubuntu which could be used to 15 generate asoundrc files for systems with special needs. The script 16 was not being maintained and was getting buggy, and the Debian and 17 Ubuntu teams have agreed to get rid of it for the next release. Users 18 can use Pulse or similar technologies to configure their preferred 19 sound devices and sinks. 20 21 -- Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:53:02 +0100 22