Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
I had a working A2DP bluetooth sink working on a headless device, by utilizing
the auto-loopback feature :
load-module module-bluetooth-policy a2dp_source=1 hfgw=0
Somewhere between pulseaudio-13.0-5 and pulseaudio-14.2-2 the auto-loopback
functionality stopped working.
The audio is still arriving on the device (as seen by pavucontrol peak-meters),
just the loopback module isn't loaded anymore.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I downgraded pulseaudio to 13.0-5, which restored the auto-loopback feature