[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1050498: pipewire-pulse systemd service not restarted despite dpkg upgrade of all pipewire packages

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hello Boud,

Le ven. 25 août 2023 à 13:09, <bouddebbug at cosmo.torun.pl> a écrit :
>
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> What I expected was that the dpkg/apt system and/or the systemd system
> should have recognised that the old 'pipewire-pulse' process was invalid
> and should have forced it to restart with the 0.3.78-1 version.
>

I think the bug you are describing is a kind of duplicate of #1027136 [1]
filled against xdg-desktop-portal. So, I will quote the smcv's answer here [2]:

>> I think (the) xdg-desktop-portal user service(s) should be stopped before
>> removing the package. Is that possible?
>
> Not really: maintainer scripts happen in the context of the overall system
> (as root) and there is not really a good way to inject service-management
> commands into user sessions. Other per-user services like PulseAudio,
> Pipewire, gpg-agent and so on are not stopped when you remove them either.

Best regards,
Dylan

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1027136
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/1027136#10