Bug#973736: buster-pu: package pulseaudio/12.2-4+deb10u2

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

hi stable release managers, hi Felipe,

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:33:21AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> Tags: buster
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: pu
> X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org,fsateler@debian.org
> 
> Hi SRM, hi Felipe
> 
> [ Reason ]
> 
> pulseaudio's deamon.conf uses the (for that version of upstream) the
> default of yes for flat-volumes. The flat-volumes value enables to
> 'flat' volumes, the sink volume equal the maximum of the volumes of
> the inputs connected to it. But this can cause quite some surprised
> and problems and can hurt ears depending on e.g. headphones values.
> 
> So some distributions have changed that already in past
> and upstream did as well in later versions. 
> 
> In unstable the change was done in the 13.0-3 upload.
> 
> [ Impact ]
> 
> So far users probably stumpling over the problem have changed away
> form the default in their configuration.

Any comment on this proposed update? Although I completely see the
point as it is changing a default in stable, I still wonder if we
should do it because it has been switched upstream and was a problem
several times for reporting user.

In any case if you agree that it is still sensible, I'm happy to
upload the proposed debdiff.

Regards,
Salvatore