[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Pipewire and EasyEffects packages

[Boyuan Yang]

Hi,

在 2024-03-03星期日的 11:25 +0000，Andreas Doll写道：
> Hi;
> 
> EasyEffects is now a broken package. When installed, it does not
> correctly pass through from the processing sink to the output sink.
> This morning I spent a few hours moving to Pipewire 1.0.3, as well as
> building the most recent version of EasyEffects as found on Github.
> Needless to say, this was a somewhat lengthy and complicated task.
> However, I can confirm that these newer packages function properly
> together. A short Github issue was raised here:
> https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects/issues/2952
> 
> On Arch-based distributions, Pipewire 1.0.3 is already installed or
> available in repositories, and appears to be stable and functional. I
> wonder if it might not be possible to thus expedite the addition of
> later releases to Debian Stable/Main - along with Wireplumber and the
> other associated packages for ALSA, Jack, Bluetooth, etcetera.

Several facts:

* Easyeffects (>> 7.0.1) cannot appear in Debian Stable or Stable-backports
because it needs GTK4 (>= 4.10), which is too new and won't exist in Debian
Stable anyway. Backporting GTK4 is impractical since it is one of the
fundamental libraries. This GTK4 version requirement by easyeffects
is a deliberate choice by easyeffects authors and we are unable to alter it.

* Debian stable-backports (bookworm-backports) provides easyeffects 7.0.1.
Debian stable provides easyeffects 7.0.0. Since easyeffects 7.0.0 is
not working for you, please test whether easyeffects 7.0.1 has solved
your issue.

* Debian stable-backports (bookworm-backports) provides pipewire 1.0.3,
though its usefulness to your bug is unknown.

* Debian Testing/Unstable/Sid provides an up-to-date version of
easyeffects.

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You have the following choices:

* Request easyeffects 7.0.0 to be removed from Debian Stable.

* Request easyeffects 7.0.0 to be removed from Debian Stable and
easyeffects 7.0.1 to be removed from Debian Stable-backports.

Please let me know which solution works best for you, and I can help complete
your request.

Thanks,
Boyuan Yang
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