Package: pulseaudio Version: 2.0-6 Severity: normal the pulseaudio package ships /etc/init.d/pulseaudio, which (by default) prints a warning every time the system boots:
PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions (warning) This makes it sound like it is recommended to run pulseaudio in system mode. But upstream makes it quite clear that system mode is unsupported: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide This includes the following quote: ------------------- But my distro is shipping an init script for PA! Ignore that. It's stupid. They shouldn't be doing this. ------------------- If we really want to ship an initscript for PA to run in system mode, that should be done in a separate package (e.g. something like pulseaudio-system-daemon), not in the default pulseaudio package. This will make system boot less noisy, and avoid actively encouraging debian users to do things that upstream doesn't want to support. Regards, --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii consolekit 0.4.5-3.1 ii libasound2 1.0.25-4 ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.25-2 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1.2 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.8-1 ii libfftw3-3 3.3.2-3.1 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libltdl7 2.4.2-1.1 ii liborc-0.4-0 1:0.4.16-2 ii libpulse0 2.0-6 ii libsamplerate0 0.1.8-5 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libsndfile1 1.0.25-5 ii libspeexdsp1 1.2~rc1-7 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii libsystemd-daemon0 44-5 ii libsystemd-login0 44-5 ii libtdb1 1.2.10-2 ii libudev0 175-7 ii libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 0.1-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.5.0-1 ii libxcb1 1.8.1-2 ii libxtst6 2:1.2.1-1 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8 ii udev 175-7 Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends: ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.31-3+nmu1 ii pulseaudio-module-x11 2.0-6 pn rtkit <none> Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests: ii paman 0.9.4-1 ii paprefs 0.9.10-1 ii pavucontrol 1.0-1 ii pavumeter 0.9.3-4 ii pulseaudio-utils 2.0-6 -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ pkg-pulseaudio-devel mailing list pkg-pulseaudio-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-pulseaudio-devel