Just upgraded another system and pulseaudio was installed again. This time I removed (purged) xfce4-volumed before I did sudo do-release- upgrade. Digging into the apt.log file in /var/log/dist-upgrade shows the following.
Installing pulseaudio as Recommends of gnome-settings-daemon Installing gnome-settings-daemon as Depends of gnome-control-center Installing gnome-control-center as Recommends of gnome-bluetooth new important dependency: gnome-bluetooth:i386 Installing gnome-bluetooth as Recommends of network-manager-gnome network-manager-gnome seems to be installed on my 12.10 systems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184643 Title: Upgrade to 13.04 installs pulseaudio To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1184643/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs