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

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thanks Dylan. I think the bug references are inverted but the fix pushed 
to the vcs to actually provide the alsa configuration should resolved 
the issue!

Cheers,
Sebastien

Le 28/10/2022 à 17:49, Dylan Aïssi a écrit :
> 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
>