Debian patches the defualt behavior of the PulseAudio client to disable
autospawning the PulseAudio daemon. However the commented line in
/etc/pulseaudio/client.conf does not reflect this Debian deviation from
the upstream default:

; autospawn = yes


Similarly, README.Debian could use some attention:
 - It references setting 'autospawn = no', despite it now being the default.
 - It references a now non-existant /etc/default/pulseaudio


Thanks!

Hi,

I verified this is still present with the current PulseAudio 17.0 Debian
packaging.

Debian’s existing disable-autospawn.patch changes the libpulse client
default from autospawn=true to autospawn=false, but the commented
client.conf template still shows ; autospawn = yes as the default.

Attached is an updated version of the existing quilt patch that also
changes the template to ; autospawn = no and records this bug in the patch
metadata.

I tested the new hunk against the PulseAudio v17.0 client.conf.in template;
it applies cleanly. The existing client-conf.c hunk is unchanged.

Feedback welcome. I’m also interested in continuing to help with PulseAudio
packaging and maintenance.

Thanks,
Thomas Stephens