[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1043034: pipewire-pulse: Missing dependencie(s) or incomplete

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

Le sam. 5 août 2023 à 11:42, Bzzzz <lazyvirus at gmx.com> a écrit :
>
> After removing almost all pulseaudio packages, except those linked to
> other programs, I rebooted and pipewire-pulse was gone (pipewire and
> wireplumber were launched as usual).

Not sure what happened, maybe a package that should have stayed
has been deleted.

> I rebooted just in case, but still no pipewire-pulse, so I scooped the
> web searching for a solution and find a guy saying that installing
> pavucontrol & paprefs made him troubleshoot his loss of audio also with
> pipewire-pulse too, so I tried, which installed some other packages, and
> rebooted - this time, pipewire-pulse was up and running after login.
>
> I'm not a specialist, but I think it was missing an
> org.freedesktop.xxx.xml file that came with one of these two packages or
> came from one of their dependencies.

I don't see any reference about a missing org.freedesktop.xxx.xml file in
the log you provided. I suppose you've confused it with the missing
"org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop"  which is a D-Bus interface used by
pipewire for screen-sharing, so not related to your sound issue. This
file is provided by the package xdg-desktop-portal (neither pavucontrol
nor paprefs).

However, I can see in your log you are facing these bugs #995357 [1]
and #1037447 [2]. Both of them are not blocking to get sound and
are already fixed in newer versions that should land in
*-backports repo soon I hope (waiting for a review in the backports queue)

> As I made a research for org.freedesktop.*.xml and checked before
> and after installing these 2 packages, I saw that the one in the log
> wasn't on my disk before, but was there after.
>
> So, I emitted the hypothesis that it could be an omission in the
> pipewire-pulse package, whether it is missing in it or a missing
> dependency toward another package.

To get rid of pulseaudio and to install pipewire, you can install the
metapackage pipewire-audio which depends on all required pipewire
packages and conflicts with pulseaudio and its bluetooth plugins
package. But really, pipewire does not depend or requires pavucontrol
or paprefs.

Best regards,
Dylan

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/995357
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1037447