Comment 7 for bug 663019

> Ok, thank you for explaining that. It's a very unexpected way of operation. I'm sure it's going to catch out other people in the future.

People think of it as a configuration file, but it is rather a script. I think that could be the "gotcha".

> I wonder why doesn't the pulseaudio documentation say anything at all about it. Could you pass this upstream to ask that a few words of explanation be added in the pa docs?

Ok, but could you then explain where you would look, and what the text would look like to give you that information? It would be good for me to know where users are looking for information.

> Meanwhile, in my good faith attempt to answer the request for more information in this report, it somehow broke my package system as described in my previous two comments.

Hmm, I'm not an expert in that area, but I think running "sudo apt-get" with the --fix-broken flag, e g "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-broken" might help. Or it might tell you what's wrong and what to do about it.