[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1057767: pipewire: Last upgrade completely broke bluetooth connection: : org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-unknown

[arne anka]

Source: pipewire
Version: 1.0.0-1
Severity: important
Tags: a11y

Dear Maintainer,

after a recent upgrade, my BT headset (for lack of a better word, see below) won't connect anymore.
I always get 
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-unknown



   * What led up to the situation?

On Dec 6 I upgraded and since the my BT thingy does not connect to my PC anymore.
I am hearing impaired and need to use a BT thingy called RemoteMic+ (by Starkey) to be able to listen to music or make calls/attend meetings via PC. So, this is a major issue for me.
Among others these packages were upgraded:

firmware-iwlwifi

libpipewire-0.3-0
libpipewire-0.3-common
libspa-0.2-bluetooth
libspa-0.2-modules


   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

First I downgraded firmware-iwlwifi to version 20230210-5 -- to no avail.

Next, I downgraded

libpipewire-0.3-0
libpipewire-0.3-common
libspa-0.2-bluetooth
libspa-0.2-modules

to version 0.3.85-1 again -- and things started to work again.
Since those packages depend on another, I couldn't downgrade just one, hence the report on the source package -- but I suspect a change in libspa-0.2-bluetooth to be responsible.

BT adapter:
ID 8087:0029 Intel Corp. AX200 Bluetooth


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled