quassel can't play audio notifications in wily

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This is the message that appears when quasselclient is run in debug :

WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded

ok, after a bit of debugging, looks like phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer is missing. Doing the following and restarting Quassel will fix the bug :

sudo apt-get install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

fix

I have just opened a debian bug for the same issue. Let wait for Upstream's opinion

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805463

Return from the debian bug is that the dependancy is correct on Debian.

Expansion of ${misc:Depends} is different b/w Ubuntu & Debian that that's what leads to the missing packages :

Debian :
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdbusmenu-qt5-2 (>= 0.9.3+14.10.20140619), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.2.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5notifyconfig5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5sonnetui5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.98.0), libphonon4qt5-4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.5.0), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.2.0), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5webkit5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), phonon4qt5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), quassel-data (= 1:0.12.2-2), dbus-x11, gawk

Ubuntu:
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdbusmenu-qt5, libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.2.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5notifyconfig5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5sonnetui5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.98.0), libphonon4qt5-4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.4.0), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5webkit5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), quassel-data (= 0.12.2-0ubuntu1)

Debian brings in phonon4qt5 which in turns bring in phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

I installed phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on my wily machine, and it did not seem to fix the issue. I need to double check, but it might be missing the KDE package that provides the sound files as well.

Yes, the default sounds are from the kde-runtime-data package. You can also select sounds from the oxygen-sounds package, they're in the same directory (/usr/share/sounds/) and have similar names. In quassel configuration under Notifications it lets you choose the sound file for each event.

I'm not sure if the quassel package should require the kde-runtime-data package, as it will still work without it if the sounds are changed...

Yep, I just tested it should depend on both phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer with kde-runtime-data.

It didn't occur to me that the sounds might not exist. in #7. Anyhow, I'll package up the change to depends unless caribou or ddstreet want to take credit.

Wait, the problem lies further than that. It seems to lie in the expansion of the ${misc:Depends} variable as the debian package has the same debian/control file and it works as expected.

I still want to look at it further, but I'm a bit short on time

I installed phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer and it fixed my problem.