Bug#674935: pulseaudio: Disable flat volumes

[Jon Ander]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 2.0-3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I think 'flat-volumes' should be set to 'no' by default in
'/etc/pulse/daemon.conf'. Applications shouldn't be able to change the system's
master volume on purpose or because of a bug [1] (still present in sid).
I don't know if this has been discussed before (I did a quick search and didn't
find anything), but if it hasn't I think it should.

Regards,
Jon Ander

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296589



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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.113+nmu2
ii  consolekit                    0.4.5-3
ii  libasound2                    1.0.25-3
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.25-2
ii  libc6                         2.13-32
ii  libcap2                       1:2.22-1.1
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.5.12-1
ii  libfftw3-3                    3.3.2-1
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.7.0-10
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.8-2
ii  libltdl7                      2.4.2-1
ii  liborc-0.4-0                  1:0.4.16-2
ii  libpulse0                     2.0-3
ii  libsamplerate0                0.1.8-4
ii  libsm6                        2:1.2.1-2
ii  libsndfile1                   1.0.25-4
ii  libspeexdsp1                  1.2~rc1-5
ii  libstdc++6                    4.7.0-10
ii  libsystemd-daemon0            44-1
ii  libsystemd-login0             44-1
ii  libtdb1                       1.2.10-2
ii  libudev0                      175-3.1
ii  libwebrtc-audio-processing-0  0.1-2
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libx11-xcb1                   2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  libxcb1                       1.8.1-1
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.2.1-1
ii  lsb-base                      4.1+Debian4
ii  udev                          175-3.1

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
pn  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio  0.10.31-3
pn  pulseaudio-module-x11     2.0-3
pn  rtkit                     <none>

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman             <none>
ii  paprefs           <none>
ii  pavucontrol       <none>
ii  pavumeter         <none>
ii  pulseaudio-utils  2.0-3

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information