I don't this bug should have been closed just yet. The original reporter obviously had a difficult time figuring out where the problem lay, and no doubt countless others will too.
At the very least a message needs to go out in apt-get upgrade telling people that they should and cite that pauvcontrol will loose functionality if they don't; but ideally the "error" message in pavucontrol needs changing to something like: ``` No devices were found. If you expected to see devices here, check that you have pulseaudio-module-udev installed. ```
