Bug#902229: reassign rather than close?

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#902229: reassign rather than close?
Date	2018-07-04 20:40 +0200
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On Wed, 2018-07-04 at 14:24 +0200, Nicola Manini wrote:
> Hello,
> 		I faced this very same issue today.
> googling this bug report was extremely useful: I deleted timidity, and now
> sound is back.  Obviously this is no solution, as I (or someone else) will
> need timidity eventually.
> 
> I understand this is not a kernel related issue, but it is still a serious
> issue anyway: timidity may grab the sound card at random moments, making
> sound unusable.

The timidity-daemon package does this, and this is intentional and not
a new behaviour.

What changed recently (I think) is that some versions of timidity
recommended timidity-daemon be installed.

> I cannot tell who is actual package (timidity? systemd?) responsible for this
> nor how this can be corrected (maybe insert an extra delay before the
> timidity daemon is started?), but it sure requires a fix.
> 
> So shouldn't this bug be reassigned rather than closed?

Because the bug was already fixed in timidity version 2.14.0-4.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug

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Bug#902229: linux-image-4.16.0-2-amd64: Intel HDA not detected by pulseaudio (shows 0 cards) but is available through ALSA Leandro Lucarella <luca@llucax.com> - 2018-06-23 17:40 +0200
  Bug#902229: Invalid Leandro Lucarella <luca@llucax.com> - 2018-06-23 18:20 +0200
  Bug#902229: reassign rather than close? Nicola Manini <nicola.manini@fisica.unimi.it> - 2018-07-04 15:10 +0200
    Bug#902229: reassign rather than close? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-07-04 20:40 +0200

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