#980006 pulseaudio: fails to prompt Gnome for headphone/headset selection (regression in 14.x)

Package:
pulseaudio
Source:
pulseaudio
Description:
PulseAudio sound server
Submitter:
Harlan Lieberman-Berg
Date:
2021-01-12 20:15:26 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#980006#5
Date:
2021-01-12 20:06:52 UTC
From:
To:
Hello maintainers,

Not entirely sure whether this is a GNOME issue or a pulseaudio issue, but since
the breakage occured due to a change in the pulseaudio API, I'm putting it here
for now. Feel free to move it if appropriate.

Since upgrading from the 13.x branch, GNOME no longer prompts whether a device
is a headphone or headset on plug insertion. After talking with i-garrison on
freenode/#pulseaudio, our guess is that this is related to the creation of
availability groups in 13.99.2 and the changes made to module
switch-on-port-available.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1028 is related,
though not specifically covering the breakage between GNOME and PA, but rather
mistakes in the way PA did selection from g-s-d.

Sincerely,