Why is audio/pulseaudio so far behind current version?

[Koop Mast]

On 22-1-2014 6:59, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Why is audio/pulseaudio, at 0.9.23, so far behind the current version, 4.0?
>
> NetBSD pkgsrc is at version 2.1.
>
> Might there be something compatible with Linux but not FreeBSD?
Version 4.0 will come with GNOME 3 import.

> It sticks out annoyingly when I get all those error messages spewed out on the console and captured in /var/log/messages.
>
> But it does not crash the system.
>
> This is an excerpt:
>
> Jan 22 03:27:02 amelia2 pulseaudio[21335]: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> Jan 22 03:27:02 amelia2 pulseaudio[21335]: core-util.c: Failed to connect to system bus:

The only thing I can think off is that the dbus service isn't running. 
if it is does the /var/run/dbus directory exist?

-Koop