Bug#831355: pulseaudio: Use module-udev-detect instead of module-detect

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Thu Jul 28 06:30:15 UTC 2016


On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:49:19 -0400 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> On 21 July 2016 at 21:43, Sean Laguna <sean.laguna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:08:52 -0400 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>
> > wrote:
> >> On 15 July 2016 at 03:51, Francois Mescam <francois at mescam.org> wrote:
> >> > Thanks after installing pulseaudio-module-udev the message disappear.
> >> >
> >> > I have not disbled installation of Recommends but I install them
> >> > manually
> >> > and I think I've miss to install this package.
> >> >
> >> > You can close the bug.
> >>
> >> OK, doing so.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Saludos,
> >> Felipe Sateler
> >
> > I think a problem here is that Debian recently removed this module from the
> > base pulseaudio package:
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-pulseaudio-devel/2016-April/006197.html.
> > Like the OP, I had to manually install it to get my default behavior back.
> 
> Did you configure apt to not install Recommends by default?

I ran into this same problem on upgrade, and yes, I have apt configured
to not install Recommends.  The default Recommends of core packages
install far too much; over time, that has been fixed somewhat, and I do
look forward to re-enabling it someday.  I've filed various bugs on
packages with excessive Recommends, as have many other people, and I've
seen several threads on debian-devel about what the default installation
installs.

In the meantime, though: why split module-udev-detect into a separate
module at all?  The main pulseaudio package still depends on udev and
libudev1, and several other components in the core package use it, so
this doesn't reduce dependencies at all; it just introduces the
possibility of breakage like this.

Would you consider either merging module-udev-detect back into
pulseaudio, or making it a Depends?

- Josh Triplett



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