Pulseaudio removed in MATE 1.10 in unstable

[Cam Hutchison]

On 13 September 2015 at 18:32, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
<glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Or just install mate-media-pulse if you want to have pulseaudio support
> in MATE:
>
> glaubitz at ikarus:~$ apt-cache depends mate-media-pulse |grep pulse
> mate-media-pulse
>   Depends: libpulse-mainloop-glib0
>   Depends: libpulse0
>   Depends: pulseaudio
>     pulseaudio:i386
> glaubitz at ikarus:~$

Sigh.

$ apt-cache show mate-media-pulse
...
Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-4
...

$ apt-cache show mate-media
...
Version: 1.10.0-1
Replaces: mate-media-gstreamer (<< 1.9.0), mate-media-pulse (<< 1.9.0)
Breaks: mate-media-gstreamer (<< 1.9.0), mate-media-pulse (<< 1.9.0)
...
Description-en: MATE media utilities
 MATE media utilities are the audio mixer and the volume
 control applet.
 .
 This package utilizes the libmatemixer library which provides
 support for ALSA and Pulseaudio as audio backends.


mate-media in MATE 1.10 replaces mate-media-pulse from 1.8. It also says in the
description that it provides support for ALSA _and_ pulseaudio.

mate-settings-daemon-pulse also had a dependency on pulseaudio.

In MATE 1.10, nether mate-settings-daemon-pulse or mate-media-pulse exist in the
archive, so there is nothing to pull in the pulseaudio daemon.

People's audio that was working under MATE 1.8 will no longer work
under MATE 1.10
unless they explicitly install pulseaudio themselves. This looks to me
to be a regression
so I am simply reporting what I found.

My question remains: Was this intentional? Perhaps it is a bug and I am happy to
raise one. But I am asking the team first.