[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1013276: personal insights to this configuration mess

[Lukas Wiest]

Hey, I'm not quite sure if everyone reading only here, recognized all
needed steps for a correct behavior.

In message #17 it was said to remove the conflicting pulseaudio configs
from the Alsa folder. But that's only half of the solution.

Ubuntu 22.10 now comes with pipewire audio by default, without any
/etc/alsa folder present. This works fine in a virtual machine, but not
on my actual hardware with multiple sinks. For this it still needed the
pipewire configurations being in place and pipewire-alsa installed.
The configurations were provided by installing the
pipewire-audio-client-libraries package in Ubuntu's case, however the
package itself isn't required to stay installed.

The requirement on my actual hardware for Java (Alsa) applications to
work properly, are the pipewire-alsa package AND the two configurations
in /etc/alsa/conf.d

For the now freshly released Ubuntu 22.10 this means on a clean install
the user is might not be able to use Alsa applications properly, without
manually fixing this. What the state on the Debian side is, I have no
idea without doing a test install.

Greetings, Lukas
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