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From: Michael Bridge <mike@dynaleet.com>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: pipewire: Pipewire should at least recommend if not require 'rtkit'
 package.
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Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 10:49:42 -0400
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Package: pipewire
Version: 1.4.2-1+rpt3
Severity: normal
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Dear Maintainer,

When building a new system with Debian Trixie, 25% of log entries (notice and above) come from pipewire with a root cause of package 'rtkit' not being installed. Recommend that the 'rtkit' package be included as a required or recommended dependency and ship with the default configuration. Installation of package 'rtkit' causes the log spam to stop. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 6.18.29+rpt-rpi-v8 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pipewire depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.152
ii  init-system-helpers      1.69~deb13u1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules  1.4.2-1+rpt3
ii  pipewire-bin             1.4.2-1+rpt3

pipewire recommends no packages.

pipewire suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
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