Bug#785108: gnome-sound-recorder: "your audio capture settings are invalid"

[jmullee]

Package: gnome-sound-recorder
Version: 3.14.0.1-1
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

"your audio capture settings are invalid"

No options available to change audio settings.


line 75:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-sound-recorder/tree/src/record.js

        this.srcElement = Gst.ElementFactory.make("pulsesrc", "srcElement");
        if(this.srcElement == null) {
          this._showErrorDialog(_("Your audio capture settings are invalid."));

I remember Windows 3.1 back in 1990 had a working sound recorder.
It could even replay backwards.
A quarter century later, this is the cutting edge: completely useless.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-sound-recorder depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.31.1-2+b1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.42.0-2.2
ii  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0                  1.4.4-2
ii  gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0                         1.4.4-2
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.14.5-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.36.8-3
ii  gjs                                          1.42.0-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad                     1.4.4-2.1+b1
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base                    1.4.4-2
ii  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good                    1.4.4-2

gnome-sound-recorder recommends no packages.

gnome-sound-recorder suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information