[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#992839: Installing pipewire removed pulse?

[Joseph Carter]

Hi Ilan,

I'm not the pipewire maintainer, but I noticed this bug was open and happen to use XFCE and both my volume control and keyboard volume keys are working. I don't know why pulseaudio was removed from your system, but if things are not in a working state for you, it's safe to put it back. Here's the current state of my installed packages:

ii  gstreamer1.0-pipewire:amd64   0.3.38-2     amd64        GStreamer 1.0 plugin for the PipeWire multimedia server
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.18.5-1     amd64        GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
ii  libcanberra-pulse:amd64       0.30-8       amd64        PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii  libkf5pulseaudioqt3:amd64     1.3-2        amd64        Pulseaudio bindings library for Qt
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64       0.3.38-2     amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server
ii  libpipewire-0.3-common        0.3.38-2     all          libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files
ii  libpipewire-0.3-dev:amd64     0.3.38-2     amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - development
ii  libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 0.3.38-2     amd64        libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules
ii  libpulse-dev:amd64            15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        PulseAudio client development headers and libraries
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii  libpulse0:amd64               15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libpulsedsp:amd64             15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii  osspd-pulseaudio              1.3.2-13     amd64        OSS Proxy Daemon: PulseAudio backend
ii  pipewire:amd64                0.3.38-2     amd64        audio and video processing engine multimedia server
ii  pipewire-bin                  0.3.38-2     amd64        PipeWire multimedia server - programs
ii  pipewire-doc                  0.3.38-2     all          libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - documentation
ii  pipewire-media-session        0.3.38-2     amd64        PipeWire multimedia session manager
un  pipewire-pulse                <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  pulseaudio                    15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-module-bluetooth   15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii  pulseaudio-utils              15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64        Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
ii  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin:amd64 0.4.3-1      amd64        Xfce4 panel plugin to control pulseaudio

As you can see, they coexist and I have not attempted to install things like pipewire-pulse (which would begin trying to replace pipewire's server with pulseaudio's) nor pipewire-audio-client-libraries which would try to intercept attempts to use those audio systems' libraries. I'm interested in moving to pipewire to replace pulse when it's deemed "not experimental", but I'm not quite ready to break my audio setup just yet. 😁

Hope that helps.

Joseph