Actually, I don't think this is a pulse bug. Ekiga never gave me this problem.
Skype did but had a setting in some preferences panel which allowed to disable auto volume setting. Disallowing flat-volumes is a workaround, not really a solution. I asked in #empathy. I was told (by sjoerd) that "pulse is also responsible for restoring app specific volumes", but since 3.4 is a bit old he doesn't remember "if there was a bug in there that caused some bad interaction". Pietro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org