[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1065345: pipewire-jack: Improve package description

Chris Joelly ml-debian-cj at joelly.net
Sun Mar 3 09:19:26 GMT 2024


Package: pipewire-jack
Version: 1.0.3-1
Severity: normal

In my point of view it is not clearly understandable fromthe package
desciptions or package docs how pipewire-jack and libspa-0.2-jack relate. I
understood that pipewire-jack, aside from being a plugin, is a implementation
of a JACK server based on JACK API and pipewire. And, I understood
libspa-0.2-jack is a lib which is needed for pipewire to connect to a JACK
server. These are two different things imho.

But I learned that JACK client applications can not connect to pipewire-jack
when libspa-0.2-jack is not installed. Thus, libspa-0.2-jack is too needed when
JACK clients want to connect to pipewire-jack, basically making it a
dependency?

Maybe I am wrong, but more details in the package descriptions could clarify
things a bid more. Tried with https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire, but that was
not clear either on how to deal with JACK native vs. JACK Pipewire setups.


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

Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-rt-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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-jack depends on:
ii  libc6              2.37-15
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0  1.0.3-1
ii  pipewire           1.0.3-1

pipewire-jack recommends no packages.

pipewire-jack suggests no packages.

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