Bug#858176: pulseaudio: module-combine is deprecated

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn < cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Control:tags -1 moreinfo
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
> > > >> <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> > > >> > Package: pulseaudio
> > > >> > Version: 10.0-1
> > > >> > Severity: normal
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I see these log messages:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > /var/log/user.log:Mar 18 22:43:50 debian pulseaudio[5682]: [pulseaudio] module.c: module-combine is deprecated: Please use module-combine-sink instead of module-combine!
> > > >> > /var/log/user.log:Mar 18 22:43:50 debian pulseaudio[5682]: [pulseaudio] module-combine.c: We will now load module-combine-sink. Please make sure to remove module-combine from your configuration.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > but I can't find any 'module-combine' reference in the configuration
> > > >> > files, neither under /etc/pulse nor ~/.pulse. I see though both libs:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > pulseaudio: /usr/lib/pulse-10.0/modules/module-combine-sink.so
> > > >> > pulseaudio: /usr/lib/pulse-10.0/modules/module-combine.so
> > > >> >
> > > >> > are distributed. My conclusion is that the deprecated module-combine
> > > >> > is loaded by default. What can I do to avoid seeing those messages?
> > > >>
> > > >> Do you have module-gconf loaded? It might have been loaded by
> > > >> configuraton set via paprefs.
> > > >
> > > > Yes, `pactl list' shows it:
> > > >
> > > > Module #12
> > > > Name: module-gconf
> > > > Argument:
> > > > Usage counter: n/a
> > > > Properties:
> > > > module.author = "Lennart Poettering"
> > > > module.description = "GConf Adapter"
> > > > module.version = "10.0"
> > >
> > > Do you have set in paprefs "output to all devices"?
> >
> > How would I go about to find that out?
> 
> Open the paprefs program, and check if you have set the option to play
> to all devices. Disable that, and the warning should go away.

Cheers.

I didn't have that package installed.  Done that now.  Have not 
verified that the messages vanish, yet.  Still:

1. this still does not explain _why_ both module-combine-sink and 
   module-combine are loaded, just to report module-combine is 
   deprecated afterwords

2. the paprefs package has these dependencies:

   The following additional packages will be installed:
     avahi-daemon libavahi-core7 libdaemon0 libgconfmm-2.6-1v5 libnss-mdns
     pulseaudio-module-zeroconf

   which may seem strange.  I don't want avahi on my system, as it 
   already performs poorly and I have no need for avahi; I intend to 
   remove the avahi packages again; will I be hit by the same 
   "deprecation" messages again?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian