Bug#994182: headset functionality broken after recent update

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:04 PM debian-bugs <debian at ginguppin.de> wrote:

>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I'm not sure what to do about this issue.
>
> Well, to me it seems pulseaudio 15 should not not be promoted to testing
> until this is sorted out -- given the current boom in video conferencing
> due to working from home, a suddenly broken headset will cause a lot of
> trouble. (Thankfully, I did not have to work this week so I could spend
> three days figuring out what's wrong, couldn't afford this in a work week.)
>
> AFAIU the issue is caused by a change in the btusb kernel driver and
> thus affects most bluetooth devices connected via USB, fixed only in 5.13.


I don't know about most. Mine did not have this problem.


>

So either the fix needs to be back-ported to the current kernel or
> pulseaudio needs to include the workaround outlined in the linked report.
> At the very, very least users should be warned about a potential
> breakage and how to work around that.
>

By I don't know what to do, I mean that this is strictly speaking not a bug
in pulseaudio. The workaround you applied just disables the relevant
functionality.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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