[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#992686: pipewire-pulse: Please have pipewire-pulse Provide pulseaudio

[Michael Biebl]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:56:05 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?RHlsYW4gQcOvc3Np?=
<daissi at debian.org> wrote:

> Pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse are not fully compatible (pipewire-pulse
> can't load pulse modules, doesn't have /usr/bin/pulseaudio or other
> Pulse executable interfaces, ...).
> 
> The best way to deal with that issue is to update all packages that
> Depends, Recommends or Suggests pulseaudio to depend either on
> pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse (i.e. pulseaudio | pipewire-pulse).
> 

I think I agree here. 

I also would like to add, that there aren't *that* many rdeps of pulseaudio.
I'm counting 26, 7 of those are packages built from src:pulseaudio, remain
19.

Some of them, like libcanberra-pulse already have a pulseaudio | pipewire-
pulse dependency. 

On this particular system (running GNOME), I have successfully uninstalled
pulseaudio and replaced it with pipewire-pulse.

I do have to add, that I don't have the gnome-core meta package installed.
meta packages like gnome-core should imho make an informed choice, which
software they want. I guess once the GNOME team thinks pipewire is ready to
replace pulseaudio, they are going to update their package dependencies
accordingly. As long as they depend on pulseaudio, they should actually get
pulseaudio, not pipewire-pulse.

Regards,
Michael
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