John Baptist wrote >
"Are there any potential negative consequences to removing this package?"

Certainly there are - 
the one clear consequence is that if you have a 5.1 setup and are using 
pulseaudio that while you will get 6 channel output the 5.1 channel mapping 
will be incorrect in gstreamer players

There are numerous 5.1 ac3 test files available - here's one
http://www.lynnemusic.com/surround.html 

or just 
wget 
http://www.lynnepublishing.com/surround/www_lynnemusic_com_surround_test.ac3

If you are not using 5.1 and experiencing pulse crashing with other
formats this may resolve with no real consequence

The real purpose of removing the plugin in this bug report is to test
and possibly point to the most likely culprit - the gstreamer pulseaudio
plugin (gst-plugins-good ) and see if it resolves the issue  for file
types other than .ac3

John Baptist wrote >
"That is, is someone from gstreamer and/or PA willing to take responsibility 
for this"

Apparently not - the bug I posted against gst-plugins-good, linked  in post # 
37 has been ignored - if removing the plugin resolves for ac3 5.1 in a 5.1 
setup then marking "..affects me.." would be good
(though it is specific to 5.1 output and  .ac3 files

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