Hi Bastien, Could you have a look at this bug (in particular) the mail below.
The bug has been tagged buster-ignore, but we would still like a more user-friendly solution (even if just in the form of a NEWS entry, so upgrading people are not caught unaware). Thanks, ~Niels On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 09:33:34 +0200 Wolfgang Silbermayr <wolfg...@silbermayr.at> wrote: > Having been hit by this on Buseter Testing before, I did some > investigation. Here are my findings: > > Conditions for this bug to appear are: > > * timidity-daemon is installed > * timidity service (from the timidity-daemon package) is enabled or > timidity gets started by hand > * No midi device is provided by the kernel > > Only if all of these these conditions are fulfilled at the same time, > this comes into effect. > > A quick test on Stretch with the timidity service enabled did not reveal > the bug. However, timidity was not running after boot, and I didn't find > the reason why. After starting it by hand, pulseaudio got unusable, just > like it does on Buster. So my guess is that the bug was actually present > in Stretch, it just did not show due to timidity not starting properly > at boot. > > A removal of timidity-daemon on affected systems is sufficient. It is > set to "Suggests" instead of "Recommends" with timidity as of 2.14.0-8, > so the majority of people who install games or music programs that pull > in timidity will no longer be affected. > > People who will be affected are those that got timidity-daemon installed > in Stretch by the "Recommends" dep, and then upgraded to Buster. Even an > apt autoremove will keep timidity-daemon installed. > > One way to escape this bug is to have a midi device available in the > system, which can also be snd_virmidi. But I don't consider this a clean > solution, because it will probably interfere for people who have real > midi hardware. > > What other options do we have? Simply keep it as-is and document it in > the the upgrade manual? Or do we have some mechanism available that > would remove timidity-daemon if it was installed automatically? Any > other ideas? > >
