Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: trixie X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:sound-theme-freedesktop User: [email protected] Usertags: pu
[ Reason ] Trivial fix for a high-visibility (high-audibility?) issue with certain Bluetooth speakers. [ Impact ] In trixie, using gnome-control-center to test a mono Bluetooth speaker doesn't find a sound clip named "audio-channel-mono" and falls back to playing a generic test clip containing white noise. Unfortunately, playing compressed audio through an audio device that is expecting uncompressed audio *also* sounds like white noise, so it's easy to misinterpret this as your speaker being misconfigured or broken. The proposed fix is to add a symlink so the "Front, Centre" sound clip (originally used when testing surround-sound) will be played instead. [ Tests ] All my Bluetooth devices are stereo (or at least pretend to be), so I can't directly test this, but I checked the gnome-control-center source code to confirm that it is looking for "audio-channel-mono", and checked that playing /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-mono.oga now has the desired result. An equivalent change has been in Ubuntu since 2017, and was upstreamed to Debian experimental during the freeze. The proposed package is a straightforward backport of a version that has been in unstable since 2025-07-31 and testing since 2025-08-13 (I almost asked for an unblock during freeze, but I thought this was more like 13.1 material). [ Risks ] I can't see how adding the symlink could do any harm. It's a 1-line change, the rest of the diff is all metadata. [ Checklist ] [x] *all* changes are documented in the d/changelog [x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them [x] attach debdiff against the package in (old)stable [x] the issue is verified as fixed in unstable
diffstat for sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8 sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8 changelog | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ control | 2 +- gbp.conf | 2 +- sound-theme-freedesktop.links | 1 + 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog --- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000 +++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/changelog 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,27 @@ +sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-6~deb13u1) trixie; urgency=medium + + * Team upload + * d/control, d/gbp.conf: Branch for trixie + * Rebuild for trixie + + -- Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:36:28 +0100 + +sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-6) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Team upload + * Release to unstable + + -- Simon McVittie <[email protected]> Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:20:05 +0100 + +sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-5) experimental; urgency=medium + + * debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links: + - Link front-center sample to audio-channel-mono so that testing a mono + bluetooth speaker plays a real sound rather than just white noise. + (LP: #1703946) + + -- Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:23:20 +0200 + sound-theme-freedesktop (0.8-4) unstable; urgency=medium * Team upload diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control --- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000 +++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/control 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ intltool Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop -Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop.git +Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/sound-theme-freedesktop.git -b debian/trixie Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/sound-theme-spec/ Rules-Requires-Root: no diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf --- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf 2025-01-18 17:47:00.000000000 +0000 +++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/gbp.conf 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ [DEFAULT] pristine-tar = True -debian-branch = debian/latest +debian-branch = debian/trixie upstream-branch = upstream/latest diff -Nru sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links --- sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ sound-theme-freedesktop-0.8/debian/sound-theme-freedesktop.links 2025-07-31 16:36:28.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-front-center.oga usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-channel-mono.oga
