Ubuntu 19.10's PulseAudio package is out of date

[mmstick]

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[wwmm]

@mikhailnov

[mikhailnov]

It is not out of date. https://launchpad.net/~mikhailnov/+archive/ubuntu/pulseeffects/+packages
It is even with current git master.

[mmstick]

See the "(newer version available)" link. The new Ubuntu release is on version 13.0, whereas the PPA is still providing 12.2 for it.

[wwmm]

If he is building from Pulseaudio's master branch the problem is only the name. The code itself is updated.

[mikhailnov]

See the "(newer version available)" link. The new Ubuntu release is on version 13.0, whereas the PPA is still providing 12.2 for it.

Sorry, I thought you wrote about PulseEffectes, not PulseAudio.

Yes, I once built PulseAudio 12.2 with backported norewinds (https://gitlab.com/nixtux-packaging/pulseaudio-ubuntu/blob/master/pulseaudio-12.2/debian/patches/0001-Backport-add-an-option-that-allows-rewinds-to-be-dis.patch) which was needed for PulseEffects for all Ubuntu releases.

Now PulseAudio 13.0 is in the official repo of Ubuntu 19.10, and so PulseAudio from the PPA will not be installed because the package in another repository is newer.

I don't plan to build PulseAudio for Ubuntu 19.10 as there is no sense for it. norewinds option is already in PulseAudio 13.0.

[mikhailnov]

You are probably asking about this because you copied PulseAudio packages from pulseeffects ppa to PopOS ppa (https://launchpad.net/~system76/+archive/ubuntu/pop/+packages?field.name_filter=pulse&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=) and now users of PopOS based on Ubuntu 19.10 can't update PulseAudio.

I once suggested you to remove priority 1001 of your PPA in PopOS. I don't know how to deal with the current situation if you already have users on 19.10. Maybe try removing eoan pulseaudio package from the ppa. I don't know how apt will deal with it.

[mikhailnov]

Or maybe add an exception for libpulse* and pulseaudio* packages to the apt config that sets Priority=1001

[mikhailnov]

I've asked people who use PopOS 19.10 to show dpkgs -s pulseaudio. My package of pulseaudio is really preinstalled. All applications in Ubuntu repository and in your PPA are linked against libpulse.so 13.0, but you ship 12.2 in your distro.
Have a look at https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=timeline&l=pulseaudio
See 6 new symbols in 13.0 compared to 12.2?
Some applications make crash due to missing symbols in libpulse.