[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1020903: Bug#1013276: Alsa clients using the wrong plugin if pulseaudio is installed

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi Sebastien,

Le lun. 10 oct. 2022 à 14:00, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>
> Reopening, I think the decision to revert is unfortunate. Nothing is
> going to remove pulseaudio on upgrade as pipewire-pulse gets pulled in
> as the new default; and the pulseaudio package provides an alsa
> configuration which creates issues for pipewire.
>
> You are basically making the new default sound service be misconfigured
> for most users for the benefit of a few who want to be able to switch by
> masking the service instead of removing pulseaudio...
>
> Could we reconsider?

The initial bug report on Launchpad [1] is confusing and is mixing several
issues as I just explained. I do not see a conflict between pulseaudio and
pipewire in [1]. The only part we can improve is to install pipewire-alsa conf
files in the right location to enable it by default (it was already
in my todo list [2]).

I propose to close #1013276 and to continue the discussion of an eventual
conflict between pulseaudio and pipewire in #1020903 to avoid noise with
unrelated issues.

Best,
Dylan

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1975823
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/pipewire/-/blob/debian/master/debian/pipewire-alsa.TODO