Bug#757909: pulseaudio-module-gconf: migration to a dconf PA backend

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2014-08-12 18:52 GMT+03:00 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Martin-Éric Racine
> <martin-eric.racine at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Package: pulseaudio-module-gconf
>> Version: 5.0-6
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> pulseaudio-module-gconf seems to be one of the few components left in Jessie that uses
>> gconf. Pretty much everything else has migrated to use the dconf/gsettings backend.
>> Could this be migrated as well? Thanks!
>
> Is there a migration guide somewhere?

Probably in the GNOME developer documentation.

> Also, this would affect paprefs as well, since that requires gconf
> apparently (I haven't looked into it yet).

Correct.

> However, this should probably be reported upstream. As I don't know
> anything about gconf or dconf or gsettings, I feel I'm not
> particularly qualified to make the case upstream. Could you forward
> this bug upstream? If not, could you please post a more detailed
> explanation of the changes required (eg, documentation pointers,
> common pitfalls), and why is a migration required (is gconf being
> dropped?)?

Gconf was dropped around the same time as GNOME 3 was released and
replaced by Dconf. There is still some transition backends in place
but something tells me that GNOME will not be maintainign them
forever.

Martin-Éric