[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#992686: pipewire-pulse: Please have pipewire-pulse Provide pulseaudio

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report!

On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 13:50:24 +0300 Arto Jantunen <viiru at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Please add Provides: pulseaudio to the pipewire-pulse package so that the
> pulseaudio daemon which this replaces can be removed (a lot of tools have
> dependencies on pulseaudio, but work just as well or better with
> pipewire-pulse).
>
> I don't think Conflicts, Replaces or Breaks are needed here as there are no
> file conflicts and there is no real harm that comes from having both installed
> (except perhaps difficulties in making sure that the right daemon is started
> and the wrong one isn't).

Pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse are not fully compatible (pipewire-pulse
can't load pulse modules, doesn't have /usr/bin/pulseaudio or other
Pulse executable interfaces, ...).

The best way to deal with that issue is to update all packages that
Depends, Recommends or Suggests pulseaudio to depend either on
pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse (i.e. pulseaudio | pipewire-pulse).

(Thanks to smcv for the suggestion!)

Best,
Dylan