Bug#729067: [phonon] App volume controls have no function

[Schrober <franzschrober@yahoo.de>]

On Friday 08 November 2013 15:11:38 Schrober wrote:
> The volume control in amarok seems to have no use at all. I've tested the
> VLC and Gstreamer backend and it is not changing my volume at all. I would
> have expect that the pulseaudio volume is changed for amarok but nothing
> happens at all. Also switching the song doesn't seem to do anything (this
> was recommended in some forums).
> 
> This also happens with the KDE dragonplayer. BUT the volume controls in VLC
> (the video player) work as expected and the pulseaudio app volume controls
> are moving when I modify the volume in the video player.
> 
> Any hints how this can be debugged further?

I've verified that it works when downgrading libphonon4 and phonon to 
4:4.6.0.0-3 + phonon-backend-gstreamer to 4:4.6.3-1. The phonon-backend-vlc 
was removed for this test because the vlc dependencies were a nightmare to 
downgrade.

Then I've upgraded libphonon4 again to 4:4.7.0.0-2 and it stopped working. I 
can repeat these step again and again and come always to the same result. I 
cannot upgrade phonon or phonon-backend-gstreamer without libphonon4. Thus it 
is not possible for me whether this also happens with only these components 
upgraded.
-- 
Franz Schrober