pulseaudio needlessy depends on pulseaudio-module-raop, bringing in a lot of potentially unwanted packages.

Bug #742281 reported by Kristoffer Tidemann
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Binary package hint: pulseaudio

natty
Package: pulseaudio
Version: 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64

pulseaudio depends on pulseaudio-module-raop and -raop depends on avahi/zeroconf, potentially bringing in a lot of unwanted packages.

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Harry (harry33) wrote :

I wonder why, too.
This dependency to pulseaudio-module-raop was pulled in with the latest update:
0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu2

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 742281] Re: pulseaudio needlessy depends on pulseaudio-module-raop, bringing in a lot of potentially unwanted packages.

I made these fixes in response to a bug documented in the package changelog:

pulseaudio (1:0.9.22+stable-queue-18-geb966-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Daniel T Chen ]
  * debian/control: pulseaudio-module-zeroconf Depends on avahi-daemon
    (LP: #689093)
  * debian/patches/0101-update-stable-queue.patch: Apply 84c8b23c to
    resolve incorrect header being used for libsndfile seen with pacat
    --file-format (LP: #660504)
  * debian/patches/0104-Load-RAOP-Zeroconf-by-default.patch: Follow
    recommendation by Martin-Éric Racine to conditionally load support
    by default for streaming to an Apple Airport Express (LP: #688272)
  * debian/pulseaudio-utils.links: Also add pamon(1) and parecord(1)
    (Closes: #599696)
[..]

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3

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pulseaudio (1:0.9.22+stable-queue-24-g67d18-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  [ David Henningsson ]
  * Add separate profile for Nvidia to make it easier to select the right
    codec out of four (LP: #716371)
  * Add workaround to make it possible to control the volume of some
    USB headsets (LP: #749856, LP: #671560)

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * debian/control: Demote pulseaudio-module-raop to suggests, as it is
    causing various issues, including crashers, (LP: #742281, #743073)
    and re-opens (LP #688272)
  * Pull some bugfixes from the stable-queue branch:
    - 4fa7495 (vala: Some bugfixes for the vala bindings)
    - ea0a2a6 (vala: delegate FreeCb does not have a target.)
    - 64985aa (vala: move GLibMainLoop class into separate file to fix linker
               errors)
    - 9f52c10 (vala: Fix path error in the last commit.)
    - 1ade8df (build-sys: Link binaries linking libpulse to libpulsecommon too)
    - c25207f (build-sys: Link binaries linking libpulsecommon to libpulse too)
    - 4be49ae (build-sys: Link lirc libraries in right order)
    - fd5b282 (module-jack-sink/source: protect against null return in
               jack_get_ports) (LP: #733424)
    - 93e7a19 (vala: ChannelMap has no destroy function.)
  * debian/patches/0097-explicitly-link-libraries.patch: Dropped, applied
    upstream
  * debian/control, debian/rules: Add dh-autoreconf
 -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:58:14 +1000

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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