Pulseaudio module migration gconf => gsettings

[Martin Steigerwald]

Hi David.

Many thanks for your prompt response.

David Rosca - 26.06.18, 08:23:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:01 PM Martin Steigerwald 
<martin at lichtvoll.de> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > The unfixed bug
> > 
> > Bug 386665 - Drop dependency on pulseaudio-gconf
> > 
> > makes plasma-pa uninstallable in the development versions of Debian
> > and Arch.
> > 
> > We would really appreciate an upstream fix for that one. The comment
> > by Luigi points out commits for paprefs gconf => gsettings
> > migration. Maybe something similar would work with Plasma PA?
> > 
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386665#c13
> > 
> > Would someone help David Rosca (in Cc) in case he is unavailable or
> > has no time to attend to the issue?
> 
> We are aware of the issue and are planning to port to gsettings.
> Actually, it may be added as alternative to gconf as otherwise it will
> break the functionality for distros that doesn't have PulseAudio 12
> yet. For now, I'll make the gconf dependency optional.
> 
> Also, PulseAudio 12 was released less then one week ago, and you
> immediately dropped gconf package, would be cool if you gived us a
> little more time.

Pulseaudio package maintainer did so. I bet Qt/KDE team would also liked 
to have more time.

On the other hand the deprecation of gconf module in Pulseaudio is quite 
old I believe.

What is the functionality that will break without the gconf or gsettings 
module? I think building without gconf may be good enough as an interim 
solution if not too much stuff breaks for our Debian Unstable / Testing 
users.

Thansk,
-- 
Martin