Pulseaudio not automatically switching between output devices

I am using a laptop and I have 3 different output devices on my machine. I have 2 regular output jacks, and a speaker. Whenever I plug-in a headset, pulseaudio happily keeps sending all audio to the speakers. I then have to open pavucontrol and manually switch my output device. This bug does not occur on OpenSUSE or Ubuntu.
Does anyone have any idea about how to fix this?
Mu pulseaudio configuration files are untouched:
/etc/pulse/client:conf http://pastie.org/private/t6sjcou1w90dcey73zpveg
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf http://pastie.org/private/mcmymrx85vuq8l8cmjyjow

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