We can't just enable the patches any more because it will change how snaps that plugs 'pulseaudio' will work. Put concretely, the patches are meant to detect if the connecting process is a snap and if it is, unconditionally deny recording. Some snaps that 'plugs: [ pulseaudio ]' have legitimate use for audio recording, such as the chromium and firefox snaps for Google Meet, etc. If these patches all of a sudden were fixed, then snaps like firefox and chromium would no longer be able to record audio.
While Ubuntu will end up patching pulseaudio in some way to support record mediation, it won't be with these patches. This is being discussed in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/pulseaudio-recording/6361. If you have experience with pulseaudio and are interested in the upcoming changes, please keep an eye on the forum (and ideally participate in the conversation). Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1781428 Title: pulseaudio built with --enable-snappy but 'Enable Snappy support: no' Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: From https://launchpadlibrarian.net/377100864/buildlog_ubuntu-cosmic- amd64.pulseaudio_1%3A12.0-1ubuntu1_BUILDING.txt.gz: ... dh_auto_configure -- --enable-x11 --disable-hal-compat --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-module-dir=\${prefix}/lib/pulse-12.0/modules --with-zsh-completion-dir=\${datadir}/zsh/vendor-completions --with-bash-completion-dir=\${datadir}/bash-completion/completions --with-systemduserunitdir=\${prefix}/lib/systemd/user --enable-snappy --disable-bluez4 --enable-gsettings --disable-gconf ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=\${prefix}/include --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --libexecdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --enable-x11 --disable-hal-compat --libdir=\${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --with-module-dir=\${prefix}/lib/pulse-12.0/modules --with-zsh-completion-dir=\${datadir}/zsh/vendor-completions --with-bash-completion-dir=\${datadir}/bash-completion/completions --with-systemduserunitdir=\${prefix}/lib/systemd/user --enable-snappy --disable-bluez4 --enable-gsettings --disable-gconf ... Enable Ubuntu trust store: no Enable Snappy support: no Enable Apparmor: yes At this point, the patch should probably be dropped, otherwise applications like chromium, etc will no longer be able to record. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1781428/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
