Pulseaudio module migration gconf => gsettings

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018, 11:16 Maximiliano Curia, <maxy at gnuservers.com.ar>
wrote:

> ¡Hola David!
>

Hi Max,


> El 2018-06-26 a las 08:23 +0200, David Rosca escribió:
> > Hi,
>
> > 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.
>
> You might want to use the frugalware patch [1] as a base for this. This
> patch
> is mentioned in the kde bug (although it wasn't linked), I was considering
> using something like that, before plasma-pa gets removed from Debian
> testing
> (if it comes to that).
>

I'm not hugely happy with the inference here that if we don't address this,
you'll be removing the Pulseaudio applet. Given that controlling system
audio is a rather crucial part of the desktop experience, it's a bit
disappointing you're thinking of resorting to that.

Given how the Salsa changeover was  handled (both the migration and
subsequent unannounced rearrangements of your repositories) along with the
above statement I'm considering whether the Debian KDE Team as a collective
needs to be referred to the CWG as the severe lack of in advance
communication from your side, which in turn creates unreasonable distress
on members of our community.


> Happy hacking,
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/frugalware/kde5/blob/master/source/plasma/plasma-pa/plasma-pa-no-GCONF-we-DONT-need-thx.patch
> --
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>
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> Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
>

Regards,
Ben
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