the pulseaudio README.Debian file shipped in the pulseaudio package
refers to a non-existent file:

that file was shipped in jessie's pulseaudio, but is nonexistent in
pulseaudio 8.

please consider updating the documentation for system-wide pulseaudio
operation.

best regards
chrysn

Hello,

Five years later this bug is still around and not even a single
commenthas been posted.

It would be really helpful to get feedback on this.

Thanks,

Sébastien.

An update would be welcome, indeed.

I have a clock that plays a sound every hour. It is run from the crontab, and
I need pulse audio when no user is logged in.

This is just an example where the use of a system-wide pulseaudio instance
comes handy.

For the reference, here's the leny file pointed at.

Hi,

The current Debian packaging still has README.Debian referring to
/etc/default/pulseaudio, which is not installed there. This patch
removes that stale reference while preserving the existing client.conf
guidance.

The change is based on current pulseaudio-team/pulseaudio master and
passes git diff --check.

Regards,
Thomas M. Stephens

From 1de2ed14af629a2b960fa2a1a8ff5db0085eea93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Thomas M. Stephens" <13455983+tmsteph@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:50:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix stale /etc/default/pulseaudio reference

---
 debian/README.Debian | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 8b8ff8b9..1fd45f5b 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 pulseaudio for Debian (and Ubuntu)
 -----------------------------------