Bug#831518: pulseaudio: no sound after upgrade from 8.0.2+b2 to 9.0-1.1

Nicolas Le Cam niko.lecam at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 21:01:14 UTC 2016


On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:30:39 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org> wrote:
> On 17 July 2016 at 12:28, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
>  Shouldn't that be a Depends rather than Recommends?
>
> No, because pulseaudio can work in environments without udev. By using
> Depends, this becomes impossible.
>

Could it be possible to depends on it in the case of an upgrade ? Or
at least display a warning if using udev and --no-install-recommends ?
Just faced the same problem, and it wasn't obvious that the sound
breakage was because I needed a new package all of a sudden.

regards,
Nicolas



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