Bug#661095: pulseaudio: pulse-alsa.conf show is not a compound

[Dick William Thomas]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 1.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #661095

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
durring a fresh install of debian wheezy as of 2nd march 2012 ffmpeg would
complain about

# This file is referred to by /usr/share/alsa/pulse.conf to set pulseaudio as
# the default output plugin for applications using alsa when PulseAudio is
# running.
ffmpeg version 0.8-4:0.8-1+b1, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the Libav developers
  built on Feb  5 2012 22:39:45 with gcc 4.6.2
This program is not developed anymore and is only provided for compatibility.
Use avconv instead (see Changelog for the list of incompatible changes).
ALSA lib conf.c:1220:(parse_def) show is not a compound
ALSA lib conf.c:1686:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:24:26:Unexpected char
ALSA lib conf.c:3406:(config_file_open) /usr/share/alsa/pulse-alsa.conf may be
old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM pulse
[alsa @ 0x8bf9a0] cannot open audio device pulse (No such file or directory)
pulse: Input/output error

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective
removing the file fixed it, also removing the ! from the file fixed it also but
then I got another error but I think this error was a typo on my part
   * What was the outcome of this action?
removing the file allowed ffmpeg to work again with out any issues afaik
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
I expected that alsa-pulse would need some config

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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser             3.113+nmu1
ii  consolekit          0.4.5-1
ii  libasound2          1.0.25-2
ii  libasound2-plugins  1.0.25-1+b1
ii  libc6               2.13-26
ii  libcap2             1:2.22-1
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.4.18-1
ii  libfftw3-3          3.3-1
ii  libice6             2:1.0.7-2
ii  libltdl7            2.4.2-1
ii  liborc-0.4-0        1:0.4.16-1
ii  libpulse0           1.1-3
ii  libsamplerate0      0.1.8-3
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.0-2
ii  libsndfile1         1.0.25-4
ii  libspeexdsp1        1.2~rc1-3
ii  libtdb1             1.2.9-4+b1
ii  libudev0            175-3.1
ii  libx11-6            2:1.4.4-4
ii  libx11-xcb1         2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxcb1             1.8-2
ii  libxtst6            2:1.2.0-4
ii  lsb-base            3.2-28.1
ii  udev                175-3.1

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.30-2.1
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat  1.1-3
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11     1.1-3
ii  rtkit                     0.10-2

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             <none>
ii  paprefs           <none>
ii  pavucontrol       <none>
ii  pavumeter         <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils  1.1-3

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