[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#552449: pulseaudio: documents pulse-rt group which doesn't exist

[Will Thompson]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.19-2
Severity: minor

I just installed pulseaudio, and read the documentation. README.Debian
says:

    Only users in the pulse-rt group are granted realtime
    priviledges [...]. It is highly recommended that all users that will
    be running pulseaudio should be add to the pulse-rt group to prevent
    skipping and dropouts in audio output.

So I tried to add myself to pulse-rt, and discovered that it doesn't
exist.

README.Debian is over three years old, so perhaps needs updating. :-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser             3.111                add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit          0.3.0-4              framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2          1.0.21a-1            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0         0.3-1                Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6               2.9-27               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2             1:2.17-1             support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.2.16-2+matchrules1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgdbm3            1.8.3-6              GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libice6             2:1.0.5-1            X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7            2.2.6a-4             A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libpulse0           0.9.19-2             PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0      0.1.7-2              audio rate conversion library
ii  libsm6              2:1.1.1-1            X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1         1.0.20-3             Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1        1.2~rc1-1            The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libudev0            146-4                libudev shared library
ii  libwrap0            7.6.q-18             Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6            2:1.2.2-1            X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6            2:1.0.3-1            X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base            3.2-23               Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                146-4                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.16-1  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.21-3   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.19-2   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.19-2   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
pn  paman                         <none>     (no description available)
pn  paprefs                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  pavucontrol                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  pavumeter                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.19-2   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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