Alexander and Elliot,

A decision like including Pulse Audio, made with full understanding that
it would break some apps, will necessarily annoy some users. This was a
predictable cost of that decision, and some few posts like Patrick's are
the evidence of that cost. Having such evidence be visible to the
developers is extremely valuable to the Ubuntu project because it
reminds everyone that such costs are real and hopefully prevents such
costs from being underestimated on future such decisions.

That's not to say that the cost was underestimated for Pulse Audio or
that the decision to include it in Hardy was incorrect, but annoyed and
confused users ranting in bug reports *will happen* when the developers
decide to implement major changes that break applications. This is a
good thing - especially in cases like this where the developers have
fixed the problem partially but not completely.

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Default ALSA device must use PulseAudio, otherwise ALSA applications may fail
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198453
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