[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#465171: more info

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 06:24 +0100, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.02.2008, 23:15 -0500 schrieb Thomas Bushnell BSG:
> > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 22:03 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 23:38 -0500, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > > > Upon further experimentation, the crash only happens if the audio device
> > > > cannot be opened.  This often happens for me if a java web app has
> > > > played sound first, because my java grabs audio.
> > > > 
> > > > It used to be that in such a circumstance rhythmbox would report an
> > > > error.  Now it crashes badly.  So this it's still a bug, and a
> > > > regression.  But it could sensibly be marked important instead of grave
> > > > since it isn't as much a show-stopper as it seemed at first.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Are you sure this isn't a GStreamer bug? In other words, does it happen
> > > with other GStreamer based apps too?
> > > 
> > > Also, this part of the backtrace looks interesting, do you still get the
> > > crash if you remove bluez-audio?
> > 
> > As of more recent updates, it now fails in a somewhat more sensible way,
> > giving a little "no entry" bar on the track as if the file went missing.
> > I think that's still bad, but I wouldn't mind if the bug was closed.
> 
> This is actually a bug in bluez-audio. First of all it shouldn't
> register it's sink (and srcs) with rank PRIMARY (they won't work
> autoplugged anyway) and then they should fail gracefully as every other
> sink does... in Ubuntu this is fixed already AFAIK.

Can you forward the bug or otherwise DTRT to make sure that Debian's
version can get fixed?  (assuming that the Ubuntu patch, if it's there,
would get added is not a good strategy).

Thomas