[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#970760: pipewire: PipeWire failing to open devices and loading libspa-alsa

[Felix Geyer]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 01:18:59 +0200 Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de> wrote:
> Package: pipewire
> Version: 0.3.12-1
> Severity: normal
> Forwarded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/293
> 
> Dear Debian folks,
> 
> 
> If PipeWire is started first in the user session, it prevents PulseAudio 
> from accessing the sound devices causing the sound devices not to found 
> and working [1].
> 
> As a workaround, remove the package *pipewire*, or disable the user 
> service and socket units.

The fix seems to be part of the 0.3.13 release.
It would be great to get this packaged since the issue is quite annoying and
pipewire gets pulled in by default with Gnome.

Cheers,
Felix