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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-11-10 15:40:21 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> 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.

This actually affects more users than just users of the GNOME desktop.
For instance, the installation of the zenity package (whose goal is
to display graphical dialog boxes from shell scripts) yields the
installation of pipewire via dependencies. So...

> Switching the default sound service is an option but should probably be a
> project discussion and not a consequence of a dependency tweak.

I entirely agree.

In particular, headphones handling is buggy with pipewire-pulse
(bug 998073), so this package should not be installed by default.

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