[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1029377: pipewire-pulse: Please remove Recommends: pipewire-alsa

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Package: pipewire-pulse
Version: 0.3.64-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: eeickmeyer at ubuntu.com

Hello there,

The introduction of the "Recommends: pipewire-alsa" line in the debian/control
file has reintroduced the problem resolved by bug #1020903 in which pipewire-
pulse is causing a conflict with pulseaudio, albiet indirectly this time.

As pipewire-pulse is now soft-depending on pipewire-alsa, which does directly
conflict with pulseaudio. This is causing a package conflict, especialy when
seeded, when pulseaudio is installed and is causing the Ubuntu Studio seed to
fail to build.

Ubuntu Studio was intending to include, in their built-in-house Studio Controls
utility, a way to easily switch between the traditional Pulseaudio/JACK setup
and the Pipewire setup. Unfortunately, this recommends line, however well-
intentioned, completely broke that.

My recommendation is to demote pulseaudio-alsa to a Suggests in this case.

I hope that this is received well and that this functionality of switching
between the two may be, once again, restored.

Thanks,
Erich Eickmeyer
Ubuntu Studio Project Leader
Ubuntu MOTU


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers lunar
  APT policy: (500, 'lunar')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1012-lowlatency (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
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             0.3.64-2

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse recommends:
pn  pipewire-alsa  <none>

Versions of packages pipewire-pulse suggests:
ii  libspa-0.2-bluetooth  0.3.64-2
ii  pulseaudio-utils      1:16.1+dfsg1-1ubuntu3

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