[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1006365: wireplumber: Please split audio files out of the main package

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hello Laurent,

Le jeu. 24 févr. 2022 à 11:33, Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> a écrit :
>
> This is similar to #1006364 opened against pipewire-media-session and an
> addition to #997862
>
> Currently having wireplumber and pulseaudio installed at the
> same time make both pipewire and pulseadio register A2DP endpoints in
> bluez (and open the alsa devices)
>
> As pulseaudio is still the default (at least when installing GNOME) this
> is causing issues.
>
> Would it be possible to split the configuration and plugins files that
> enable the "audio" part of pipewire to an other package? That way
> pipewire-pulse could depend on that package instead?

Unfortunately, it's not so easy. Moving conf files will just
completely break audio.
If we want to stop wireplumber managing audio, we have to modify conf files and
that makes life harder for users who want to switch to PW/WP for audio.
Some related discussion here:
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/wireplumber/-/merge_requests/7

Arch Linux meets the same issue recently and they had to switch back
to pipewire-media-session:
https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-session-with-wireplumber/

Why a user would install wireplumber without having pipewire managing audio?

Best,
Dylan