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You need to start the hsphfpd.service from the hsphfpd-git package.

Good enough, thank you!

To be honest, I'm not sure. I think, this includes functionality from the A2DP merge request, because for my bluetooth headphones I can choose from aptX, SBC low, middle, high, automatic, and extreme quality profile 2. And I don't think A2DP has any more advantages.

Does this include Pali's A2Dp's work or only hsphfpd? I only see hsphfpd in the source, but maybe I'm missing something for the extra codecs.

I think it's in Pali's interest that people use his code. He only struggles with the PulseAudio maintainers. If he wants me to take down this package, he can write me.

I am sorry but I do not think that using someone's work without consent in (even AUR) a package is appropriate and Pali withdrawn his patches for well known reason. Of course, nothing stops you from using the saved branch in your PKGBUILD using for an example @jennydaman's patch, but there's an ongoing drama and I believe that the packages shouldn't be updated until Pali agrees to.

For the impatient, here's a patch you may use to change the source to kapiwko's backup.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 7933e8f79..e18affd94 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 pkgbase=pulseaudio-hsphfpd
 pkgname=(pulseaudio-hsphfpd libpulse-hsphfpd alsa-card-profiles-hsphfpd pulseaudio-{zeroconf,lirc,jack,bluetooth,equalizer,rtp}-hsphfpd)
 pkgdesc="A fork of pulseaudio providing superior bluetooth headset functionality"
-pkgver=14.0+116+gd2ea10877
+pkgver=14.0+137+gd3802d928
 pkgrel=1
 arch=(x86_64)
 url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/"
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ makedepends=(libasyncns libcap attr libxtst libsm libsndfile rtkit libsoxr
              speexdsp tdb systemd dbus avahi bluez bluez-libs jack2 sbc
              lirc openssl fftw orc gtk3 webrtc-audio-processing check git meson
              xmltoman gst-plugins-base-libs libopenaptx)
-_commit=d1e0594e939e3309435c966d994b0207b10f5175  # tags/v14.0^0
-source=("git+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.git#commit=$_commit")
+_commit=d3802d928c2b20468383e0953451f5d685dc78db
+source=("git+https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kapiwko/pulseaudio.git#commit=$_commit")
 sha256sums=('SKIP')

 pkgver() {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ prepare() {
   # Freeze version before patching
   ./git-version-gen doesnt-exist >.tarball-version

-  git fetch "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pali/pulseaudio.git" "hsphfpd"
+  git fetch "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kapiwko/pulseaudio.git" "hsphfpd"
   git checkout -B "pali/hsphfpd" FETCH_HEAD
   git checkout master
   git merge --ff -m "Merge branch 'pali/hsphfpd' into master" "pali/hsphfpd"

Someone has revived Pali's work and has posted links in: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/227#note_720426

Kamil Piwowarski gitlab@gitlab.freedesktop.org

Kamil Piwowarski commented:

If someone wants to compile pulseaudio with this and !288 MR you can get it there:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kapiwko/pulseaudio/-/tree/a2dp-codecs https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/kapiwko/pulseaudio/-/tree/hsphfpd

Maybe you can temporarily switch to these source files?

ok, thank you

why do i get this:

Username for 'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org':

Yeah I saw that. I'm still hesitant to just delete this package because it seemed like a rushed decision to delete all his branches. But unfortunately it seems like the pulseaudio maintainers don't realize the importance of that feature.

If there doesn't come up a solution during the next weeks, I am going to delete this package.