[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#980487: pipewire: multiarch for pipewire-audio-client-libraries

[Simon McVittie]

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 18:38:57 +0100, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> It would nice if the package was multiarch-installable, so that it's
> possible to install the i386 versions of these libraries

It should already be multiarch co-installable?

$ sudo apt install --reinstall pipewire-audio-client-libraries:amd64 pipewire-audio-client-libraries:i386
...
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 pipewire-audio-client-libraries amd64 0.3.19-2 [85.6 kB]
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main i386 pipewire-audio-client-libraries i386 0.3.19-2 [85.0 kB]
Fetched 171 kB in 0s (753 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 500509 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../pipewire-audio-client-libraries_0.3.19-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pipewire-audio-client-libraries:amd64 (0.3.19-2) over (0.3.19-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../pipewire-audio-client-libraries_0.3.19-2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking pipewire-audio-client-libraries:i386 (0.3.19-2) over (0.3.19-2) ...
Setting up pipewire-audio-client-libraries:amd64 (0.3.19-2) ...
Setting up pipewire-audio-client-libraries:i386 (0.3.19-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.3-2) ...

> This is currently not possible because of /usr/bin/pw-jack.

It's possible, because pw-jack is a shell script that is identical across
all architectures (I contributed a patch upstream to make this possible).

> Could this binary maybe also be moved to pipewire-bin?

Not really: either pw-jack would have an unsatisfied dependency on
pipewire-audio-client-libraries, or pipewire-audio-client-libraries would
be forced to be installed in all pipewire installations (in which case
there would be no point in it being a separate package).

    smcv