OK, so maybe I'm experiencing another bug.
The PPA did in fact fixed my problem (profile switching) when I was using
16.04, and I was hoping your proposed package could fixed it for me in
16.10.
I was having a impression that was the same problem, but apparently it is
not.

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, 20:54 Luke Yelavich, <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The proposed package does *NOT* fix any bugs relating to profile
> switching.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1574324
>
> Title:
>   pulseaudio crashes when connecting to bluetooth headphones (due to
>   ubuntu changes?)
>
> Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
>   In Progress
> Status in pulseaudio source package in Xenial:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in pulseaudio source package in Yakkety:
>   Fix Committed
>
> Bug description:
>   Impact:
>
>   A patch we carry for Ubuntu touch introduced a change that originally
>   was required to make sure PulseAudio did not crash. This patch was
>   ported to PulseAudio 8 in Xenial, but the patch author's bluetooth
>   hardware that was to hand at the time worked so was assumed to be ok.
>   However, the opposite is now happening, i.e PulseAudio is crashing
>   with a subset of Bluetooth hardware.
>
>   Regression potential:
>
>   Very low to none. As can be read in this report, much debugging and
>   testing has been done to find the problem, and the eventual fix.
>   Moreover the change is the removal of a patch hunk that removed a line
>   of code originally present in PulseAudio.
>
>   Test case:
>
>   NOTE that this test case applies to bluetooth hardware that is
>   identified as not working in this bug report.
>
>   1. Install, or upgrade to Xenial or yakkety.
>   2. Pair your bluetooth device in the bluetooth settings in the relevant
> settings application for your desktop environment.
>   3. Once paired, you will notice that sound stops working, as pulseaudio
> has thrown an assertion error.
>   4. You do not have to remove your audio device from the paired device
> list, but it may be easier to do so for the next part of the testing.
>   5. Update to the version of PulseAudio in xenial-proposed which is
> 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.1, or in yakkety-proposed, which is 1:9.0-2ubuntu2.1.
>   6. Re-pair your device. Audio should continue to work, and you should be
> able to switch to your bluetooth device and use it.
>
>
>   Original bug report:
>
>   When I attempt to connect my Jaybird Bluebuds X to Ubuntu 16.04
>   pulseaudio crashes, this does *NOT* happen with a Jambox which leads
>   me to believe it's an intermittent problem with some hardware. This
>   did not happen on Ubuntu 15.10 (which was an upgrade of 15.04).
>
>   Ubuntu Release:
>
>   Description:  Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
>   Release:      16.04
>
>   Pulseaudio Version:
>
>   pulseaudio:
>     Installed: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3
>     Candidate: 1:8.0-0ubuntu3
>     Version table:
>    *** 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 500
>           500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
> Packages
>           100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   Device info:
>
>   [bluetooth]# info 44:5E:F3:B4:07:29
>   Device 44:5E:F3:B4:07:29
>    Name: BlueBuds X
>    Alias: BlueBuds X
>    Class: 0x240404
>    Icon: audio-card
>    Paired: yes
>    Trusted: yes
>    Blocked: no
>    Connected: no
>    LegacyPairing: no
>    UUID: Headset                   (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>    UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>    UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>    UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>    UUID: Handsfree                 (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>    UUID: Unknown                   (000080ff-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
>
>   I have also attached a debug dump of Pulseaudio when attempting to
>   connect to the headphones.
>
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