[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#1059872: alsa-ucm-conf should be a required package, it's essential on some sound hardware

[Marc MERLIN]

Package: alsa-ucm-conf
Version: 1.2.10-1

As per https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4758 ,
alsa-ucm-conf is absolutely required for any sound to come out on
speakers on a Dell 9730. Without it, you get sound on headphones, but
the speakers won't work, and there is nothing you can unmute with
alsamixer. I tried literally all alsamixer channels, nothing worked or
did anything for the speakers.

After may many hours (by that I mean over 10 hours over many days of
googling, building new kernels, diffing ubuntu where sound worked, and
debian 12 where sound did not work), I got notwhere until this bug and
being told about alsa-ucm-conf I had never heard about and was mentioned
nowhere in the copious pages I read (most talked about alsamixer,
pipewire and wireplumber that add their own levels of things that can go
wrong)

So the 2 bugs, I'd lke to file here
1) This should be a Requires, not Recommends
Package: libasound2-data
Source: alsa-lib
Version: 1.2.8-1
Installed-Size: 200
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Replaces: libasound2 (<< 1.2.8-1)
Recommends: alsa-ucm-conf, alsa-topology-conf

2) Package gives 0 clue that it is an absolutely essential pacakge for
some sound hardware.

Package: alsa-ucm-conf
Version: 1.2.10-1
Installed-Size: 828
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.2.7)
Description-en: ALSA Use Case Manager configuration files
 This package contains ALSA Use Case Manager configuration of audio
 input/output names and routing for specific audio hardware. They can be
 used with the alsaucm tool.

Thanks for making it more clear that this package is very essential for
some hardware that needs something close to half-secret knock code
before speakers will work.

Marc
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