On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:23 AM Martin Steigerwald <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > > Hi David. > > Many thanks for your prompt response.
Here's the patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13734 > > David Rosca - 26.06.18, 08:23: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:01 PM Martin Steigerwald > <mar...@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > The unfixed bug > > > > > > Bug 386665 - Drop dependency on pulseaudio-gconf > > > > > > makes plasma-pa uninstallable in the development versions of Debian > > > and Arch. > > > > > > We would really appreciate an upstream fix for that one. The comment > > > by Luigi points out commits for paprefs gconf => gsettings > > > migration. Maybe something similar would work with Plasma PA? > > > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386665#c13 > > > > > > Would someone help David Rosca (in Cc) in case he is unavailable or > > > has no time to attend to the issue? > > > > We are aware of the issue and are planning to port to gsettings. > > Actually, it may be added as alternative to gconf as otherwise it will > > break the functionality for distros that doesn't have PulseAudio 12 > > yet. For now, I'll make the gconf dependency optional. > > > > Also, PulseAudio 12 was released less then one week ago, and you > > immediately dropped gconf package, would be cool if you gived us a > > little more time. > > Pulseaudio package maintainer did so. I bet Qt/KDE team would also liked > to have more time. Fair enough. > > On the other hand the deprecation of gconf module in Pulseaudio is quite > old I believe. That's true, but up until PulseAudio 12 release, there were no alternative. > > What is the functionality that will break without the gconf or gsettings > module? I think building without gconf may be good enough as an interim > solution if not too much stuff breaks for our Debian Unstable / Testing > users. Two checkboxes under Advanced tab in KCM: * Add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all local sound cards * Automatically switch all running streams when a new output becomes available Those will be now hidden when building without GConf. > > Thansk, > -- > Martin > > David
