[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1020903: pipewire-pulse: Is the conflict with pulseaudio necessary?

[Daniel Vacek]

Package: pipewire-pulse
Version: 0.3.58-1, 0.3.58-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: neelx.g at gmail.com

Hello,

I was wondering, could both services (pulseaudio and pipewire-pulse) still be
co-installed at the same time?
That way it would be easy to stop one and start the other in case of any
issues.
Or it would be possible to have one system user (with pro-audio preference)
using pipewire-pulse by default and other users sticking to pulseaudio due to
additional features.

If the idea is about full migration to the new service, perhaps that should be
achieved using additional package? Any thoughts here?

Have a nice day,
Daniel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-trunk-rt-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.65.2
ii  pipewire             0.3.57-1

pipewire-pulse recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse suggests:
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth  0.3.57-1
ii  pulseaudio-utils      16.1+dfsg1-2

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