Bug#432736: libgnome2-0: gnome_sound_sample_load does not work

[Sam Morris]

Package: libgnome2-0
Version: 2.18.0-4
Severity: important

Gossip does not play any sounds on my laptop. I wrote a small test
program to debug this (attached).

The problem seems to be in the gnome_sound_sample_load function.
According to strace, the test program does not even attempt to load the
specified sound file. In fact, even if I specify a sound file that does
not exist, the function still returns a value other than its error
return code of -1.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (540, 'stable'), (520, 'testing'), (510, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libgnome2-0 depends on:
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-6      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.18.0-2     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.5-9+b1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]      0.2.36-3     Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.18.0.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.12.12-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-common            2.18.0-4     The GNOME 2 library - common files
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.18.1-2   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline parameters

libgnome2-0 recommends no packages.

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