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

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:22:20 +0100 Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> Hey Dylan, thanks for the reply!
> 
> Le 10/11/2021 à 17:56, Dylan Aïssi a écrit :
> > 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?
> It might help some users who are upgrading and already had 
> pipewire-media-service installed but isn't really a solution. The first 
> option in the recommend is wireplumber so new install will default to 
> that one. Also if wireplumber is the recommended session manager letting 
> user get it is probably right
> > 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?
> 
> No suggestion sorry, I don't know pipewire well enough for that. I tried 
> to ask on their IRC channel yesterday, Wim basically suggested that the 
> right way to keep pulseaudio in charge of audio was to not load the alsa 
> and bluetooth monitors by changing the configuration, maybe that's the 
> right thing to do until we decide to make pipewire replace pulseaudio?

Wouldn't it be sufficient to not make wireplumber recommend 
pipewire-pulse resp. demoting it to suggests?

I suppose, if someone (deliberately) installs pipewire-pulse, they want 
pipewire-pulse to replace pulseaudio.
By patching wireplumber you would make this use case harder iiuc?