[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#999363: Shouldn't replace pulseaudio by pipewire by default

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi Sebastien,

Le mer. 10 nov. 2021 à 15:45, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>
> The pipewire 0.3.39-3 updated replaced pipewire-media-service Recommends
> by wireplumber, or wireplumber Recommends pipewire-pulse which makes it
> take over pulseaudio as the default sound service. We got several report
> of people upgrading and having issues on #debian-gnome.
> Pipewire is installed by default on GNOME because it's used for screen
> recording but pulseaudio is still installed and our default sound server.
>

I re-added pipewire-media-service as an alternative to wireplumber in
pipewire Recommends in the last upload 0.3.39-4.
Could this fix the issue?

> Switching the default sound service is an option but should probably be
> a project discussion and not a consequence of a dependency tweak. Could
> you perhaps lower the Recommends on pipewire-pulse to a Suggests for now?

I totally agree, that was not my aim to switch the default sound service.
Having wireplumber installed without pipewire-pulse is not enough to
get back pulseaudio as a sound service, we need to modify
/usr/share/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf
I am not sure how to correctly handle that. Any suggestion?

Best,
Dylan