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

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57743
Control: tags -1 upstream

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Martin-Éric Racine
<martin-eric.racine at iki.fi> wrote:
> 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.

Turns out there is already a bug upstream. Marking as forwarded.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler