Bug#696842: pulseaudio: please do not ship /etc/init.d/pulseaudio -- system mode is actively discouraged by upstream

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-6
Severity: normal

the pulseaudio package ships /etc/init.d/pulseaudio, which (by
default) prints a warning every time the system boots:

PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions (warning)

This makes it sound like it is recommended to run pulseaudio in system
mode.  But upstream makes it quite clear that system mode is
unsupported:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide

This includes the following quote:

-------------------
But my distro is shipping an init script for PA!

Ignore that. It's stupid. They shouldn't be doing this. 
-------------------

If we really want to ship an initscript for PA to run in system mode,
that should be done in a separate package (e.g. something like
pulseaudio-system-daemon), not in the default pulseaudio package.
This will make system boot less noisy, and avoid actively encouraging
debian users to do things that upstream doesn't want to support.

Regards,

        --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu3
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3.1
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-4
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-37
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.2
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.6.8-1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-3.1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.2-4
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1.1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-6
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-5
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-5
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-7
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.2-4
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-5
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-5
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-7
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.5.0-1
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-2
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian8
ii  udev                          175-7

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3+nmu1
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-6
pn  rtkit                     <none>

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             0.9.4-1
ii  paprefs           0.9.10-1
ii  pavucontrol       1.0-1
ii  pavumeter         0.9.3-4
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-6

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