Bug#833011: pulseaudio: /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 should ship with pulseaudio-module-x11

[Felipe Sateler]

On 30 July 2016 at 16:54, Nicolas LE CAM <niko.lecam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 9.0-1.1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11, called by /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop every time a user log in a DE, tries to load several module-x11-* modules.
> Those modules are shipped by pulseaudio-module-x11 package which is only recommended by (instead of by a dependances of) pulseaudio.

You should not disable installation of Recommends without careful
consideration. They are there for a reason.

> IMHO they should ship with the modules they try to load (i.e. in pulseaudio-module-x11 package).

Hmm. Looks like there isn't much gain from the split: pulseaudio
depends on the X11 stack (which wasn't the case when the split was
made), so there is not much point in splitting the X11 module into a
separate package.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler