Pulseaudio removed in MATE 1.10 in unstable

[Cam Hutchison]

On 13 September 2015 at 18:22,  <tomas at tuxteam.de> wrote:
>
>> Is this intentional? Since the pulseaudio package contains the pulseaudio
>> daemon, it seems I will need to explicitly install pulseaudio or lose
>> sound. This behaviour seems to be incorrect for an upgrade.
>
> You don't need pulseaudio for sound (ALSA on its own is fine). Perhaps
> that's why it is optional.
>
> That said, if you want/need pulseaudio's features, perhaps you want
> to mark it manually for installation?

Yes. I acknowledged that in my original email. That was not why I emailed the
Debian MATE developers.

I emailed to report what I thought was a regression to ask if it was
intentional.
If not, it's a bug and I'll report it as such. I'm not looking for
workarounds; I'm
looking to help make things work well.

I have already marked my installation of pulseaudio as manually
installed. Hopefully
this can work better for our users who are not as familiar with the
packaging system
as some of us are.