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

[Felipe Sateler]

On 30 July 2016 at 17:01, Nicolas Le Cam <niko.lecam at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you are using --no-install-recommends, you should always be on the
watch for new recommended packages.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler