Bug#989845: pulseaudio: Needless Depends: on libasound2-plugins should be turned back into Recommends:

[Dennis Filder]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 09:10:58AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> Well, without libasound2-plugins plain alsa apps cannot output to
> pulseaudio. That's the reason we want it. OTOH, this may fit the
> definition of "all but unusual installations".

Using only packages depending on libpulse0 with pulseaudio is an
entirely valid use case (e.g. just using Firefox and a softphone on a
thin client).  These users shouldn't have to live with a 200 MB
burden.

> Happy to review a salsa MRs, especially if they also address 963582.

Let's not needlessly couple these issues: Fixing this bug by reverting
the Depends is trivial, but fixing #963582 is not esp. if the Apparmor
profile has to be modularized, too, and because it will probably
require splitting off the X-related modules into a separate package.
I have done some exploratory work, but it is still just at the
proof-of-concept stage.  I will prepare a MR for that once I have
something that's a bit more presentable.

Regards,
Dennis.