mpris property "Position" with wrong type "i"

[Arnold_Layne]

indicator-sound spam in journalctl:
"Received property Position with type x does not match expected type i in the expected interface"
Fix attached.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "indicator-sound-gtk2-int64.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The package indicator-sound-gtk2 was last included in the 18.04 release of Ubuntu. That release has recently moved out of standard support and into ESM, subsequently this bug will not fixed in that release. Thanks for identifying a patch though!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thinking it a bit more I realized there might be other versions of the indicator-sound package which could have the same issue. I looked at the source code for indicator-sound and I saw the following:

 $ grep Position src/mpris2-interfaces.vala
  public abstract int64 Position{owned get; set;}

The same is true with ayatana-indicator-sound:

[ 11:45AM 10549 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:/tmp/pkgs/mantic/ayatana-indicator-sound-22.9.2 ]
 $ grep Position src/mpris2-interfaces.vala
  public abstract int64 Position{owned get; set;}