Bug#1111608: trixie-pu: package sound-theme-freedesktop/0.8-6~deb13u1
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie
X-Debbugs-Cc: sound-theme-freedesktop@packages.debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:sound-theme-freedesktop
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu
[ Reason ]
Trivial fix for a high-visibility (high-audibility?) issue with certain
Bluetooth speakers.
[ Impact ]
In trixie, using gnome-control-center to test a mono Bluetooth speaker
doesn't find a sound clip named "audio-channel-mono" and falls back to
playing a generic test clip containing white noise. Unfortunately,
playing compressed audio through an audio device that is expecting
uncompressed audio *also* sounds like white noise, so it's easy to
misinterpret this as your speaker being misconfigured or broken.
The proposed fix is to add a symlink so the "Front, Centre" sound clip
(originally used when testing surround-sound) will be played instead.
[ Tests ]
All my Bluetooth devices are stereo (or at least pretend to be), so I
can't directly test this, but I checked the gnome-control-center source
code to confirm that it is looking for "audio-channel-mono", and checked
that playing /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-mono.oga
now has the desired result.
An equivalent change has been in Ubuntu since 2017, and was upstreamed
to Debian experimental during the freeze. The proposed package is a
straightforward backport of a version that has been in unstable since
2025-07-31 and testing since 2025-08-13 (I almost asked for an unblock
during freeze, but I thought this was more like 13.1 material).
[ Risks ]
I can't see how adding the symlink could do any harm. It's a 1-line
change, the rest of the diff is all metadata.
[ Checklist ]
[x] *all* changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[x] attach debdiff against the package in (old)stable
[x] the issue is verified as fixed in unstable
diffstat for sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8 sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8
changelog | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
control | 2 +-
gbp.conf | 2 +-
sound-theme-freedesktop.links | 1 +
4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog
--- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000
+++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
+sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-6~deb13u1) trixie; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload
+ * d/control, d/gbp.conf: Branch for trixie
+ * Rebuild for trixie
+
+ -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:36:28 +0100
+
+sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-6) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Team upload
+ * Release to unstable
+
+ -- Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:20:05 +0100
+
+sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-5) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+ * debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links:
+ - Link front-center sample to audio-channel-mono so that testing a mono
+ bluetooth speaker plays a real sound rather than just white noise.
+ (LP: #1703946)
+
+ -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@ubuntu.com> Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:23:20 +0200
+
sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control
--- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000
+++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
intltool
Standards-Version: 4.7.0
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop
-Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop.git
+Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop.git -b debian/trixie
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/
Rules-Requires-Root: no
diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf
--- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000
+++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
[DEFAULT]
pristine-tar = True
-debian-branch = debian/latest
+debian-branch = debian/trixie
upstream-branch = upstream/latest
diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links
--- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-front-center.oga usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-mono.oga
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