Bug#774810: pulseaudio-utils: pactl can no longer change volume: Assertion 'vol_spec' failed at utils/pactl.c:1462

[Felipe Sateler]

Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Jameson Graef Rollins
<jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07 2015, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
>> The problem is not with the -- argument. That works fine. The problem
>> is that the option parsing for the volumes became buggy somewhere
>> after the 5.0 release. I have posted a patch to the upstream list,
>> hopefully it will be accepted before the final 6.0 release.
>>
>> In the meantime, just drop the -- specifier. For most cases (including
>> setting negative values) it should be unnecessaryi.

The patch has been applied upstream. I'm a bit short on time, so
getting this fix in debian will have to wait until the next PA release
(either rc or final).

>>
>> Thanks for your report!
>
> Ok, great, thanks so much, Felipe.  And thank you very much for the very
> speedy response, and for maintaining such a valuable package

:)

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler