[Bug 1283003] [NEW] Bluetooth headset/speakers listed but not selectable in Sound settings

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[Impact]
Bluetooth headset/speakers are listed but not selectable in Sound settings (the correct device's options don't appear in the right pane). Hence no Bluetooth audio is unusable.

[Test Case]
1. Pair a Bluetooth audio device with Ubuntu.
2. Go to Sound settings and try to select the device.
Expected: The Bluetooth audio device is selectable (its options appear in the right pane when clicked and the selection stays on that device).

[Regression Potential]
Low. The SRU focuses on Bluetooth logic in pulseaudio, so that is the main area affected. A combination of related A2DP bugs in pulseaudio in xenial means it is difficult to get working at all without this patch. So highly unlikely Bluetooth audio support could get worse. Since pulseaudio itself is being modified there is always a regression potential in support for other audio devices, but several audio devices have been tested and all continue to work well with the patch.

[Other notes]
Related to bug 1438510 and bug 1582213. Possibly others too. The debdiff which fixes this is attached to bug 1582213.

Please note that Bluetooth and Bluetooth audio support in xenial is
still not perfect. This SRU only aims to address a few of the most
troublesome issues. Please consider the fact that this is an incremental
improvement and some people are still likely to experience some bugs
related to pulseaudio and Bluetooth, even after this SRU.

The patch was authored by Luke Yelavich with help from Konrad
Zapałowicz. And it has received further testing over the past two months
by Konrad, Jim Hodapp and Daniel van Vugt. The debdiff proposed here
only changes the changelog wording from Luke's original PPA.

[Original Description]
Hi,

I found a bug in Ubuntu 14.04 !

I tried to pair a bluetooth stereo headset (A2DP compatible). The
pairing process goes well, but after that I can't select it on the audio
preferences.

When I select it, it only shows the last selected item options and don't do anything. (he should switch to the headset output).
I must mention that it worked very well on Ubuntu 12.04.

This bug can be in the bluetooth stack or in unity-control-center or
maybe pulseaudio. I actually have no idea.

** Affects: blueman
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: blueman (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Invalid

** Affects: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: blueman (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-bluetooth (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
         Status: In Progress


** Tags: a2dp papercuts2017 regression regression-release ua xenial
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Bluetooth headset/speakers listed but not selectable in Sound settings
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