[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1004385: wireplumber: VLC freezes 20+ seconds before starting

[Benno Overeinder]

Package: wireplumber
Version: 0.4.7-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: benno at overeinder.net

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

After a recent upgrade of wireplumber, vlc freezes for about 20-30
seconds after launch before playing anything.  After some searching I
found this issue has been reported on other forums that after upgrading
from 0.4.5 to 0.4.7 the vlc application will freeze for 20-30 seconds
before playing anything.

Here are the URLs to the reported issue:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/63
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/issues/178

Here a member of the forum reported the following: 

  I git bisected this problem down to wireplumber commit 6adccbe3
  ("policy-node: always use the default linkable if default nodes module
  is loaded").  Reverting that commit requires first reverting bee9827a
  and 23fc4d21.  With all 3 reverted, I no longer have any delays when
  running VLC.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages wireplumber depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers   1.61
ii  libc6                 2.33-3
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.70.2-1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0     0.3.43-2
ii  libwireplumber-0.4-0  0.4.7-1
ii  pipewire              0.3.43-2

Versions of packages wireplumber recommends:
ii  pipewire-pulse  0.3.43-2

wireplumber suggests no packages.

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