[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#704603: gnome-core: No alternative dependency to allow removing pulseaudio in gnome-core

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 11:53:52 +0200, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
> At the moment we can't follow PipeWire wiki instructions
> (https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire#Debian_Testing.2FUnstable) to remove
> package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth as it is a hard dependency of
> gnome-core.

I don't know why those instructions recommend removing
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth. Now that the pipewire-pulse package exists,
it should be possible to just install pipewire-pulse and
libspa-0.2-bluetooth, and reboot.

Similarly, pipewire-pulse.service and pipewire-pulse.socket have Conflicts
on their pulseaudio counterparts, so they should take over gracefully from
pulseaudio without needing the pulseaudio equivalents to be masked.

pipewire maintainers: please could you fact-check the instructions on
the wiki, or delete them and replace them with a link to pipewire's
README.Debian if it's a better source? I suspect that the instructions
given for testing/unstable are unnecessarily complicated.

    smcv