[bug#53676] [PATCH 0/5] *** PulseAudio service improvements ***

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:13:52PM -0500, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> This small series adds an easy way to drop PulseAudio configuration scripts 
>> to
>> /etc/pulse/default.pa.d.  It also lifts the need to reboot the machine to 
>> have
>> a new PulseAudio configuration active.
>
> Nice! That will be a great improvement.
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer (5):
>>   doc: Fix typo.
>>   services/sound: Normalize pulseaudio-configuration accessor names.
>>   gnu: pulseaudio: Graft to adjust configuration.
>>   services: pulseaudio: Add an extra-script-files configuration field.
>>   services: pulseaudio: Deploy the configuration files to /etc/pulse.
>
> I don't think we should use grafts for anything besides fixing very
> serious bugs, although they are definitely useful to demonstrate new
> features in a patch series.
>
> Pulseaudio only has ~1700 dependents. We can easily handle it on a
> "new-features" branch or similar.

True; I was thinking to proceed this way and ungraft it (as well as
other grafted packages) in the branch that will need to be made soon to
fix the Rust CVE.  A specialized world rebuild branch.

Maxim