[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#998220: pipewire: libspa-0.2-bluetooth not installed

[Ralf Jung]

Hi all,

> The first problem was that the headset disconnected immediately after
> connecting. There was an associated error in journalctl :
> 
> src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for <some
> hex numbers> Protocol not available
> 
> Some search engine pointed to me that this may be associated with missing
> libspa-0.2-bluetooth, so I installed it and this first error disappeared. So a
> first suggestion would be to make sure that libspa-0.2-bluetooth is added as a
> dependency to some of the pipewire set.

I am having the same problem. According to 
https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp, one also has to uninstall 
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth.

This is one of the rare cases where upgrading Debian just silently broke the 
system -- all bluetooth audio functionality just stopped working without 
warning. I hope something can be done to avoid this.

Amusingly, the description of the libspa package says " It is considered to be 
experimental, and is disabled by default (even if installed) to avoid conflicts 
with equivalent functionality in PulseAudio. " -- however, since upgrades now 
seem to automatically switch people over from PA to pipewire, does this still 
make sense? So far certainly one cannot speak of "equivalent functionality", 
since the bluetooth support in PA actually worked out of the box without any 
fiddling...

> This however did not solve my problem, I will file another bug report for the
> remaining part

I am also still struggling with getting BT working again; do you have a link to 
the other bug report?

Kind regards,
Ralf