[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Pipewire and EasyEffects packages

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 10:33 AM Andreas Doll
<andreas.owen.doll at vixen.international> wrote:
> I can then write an unofficial guide to
> installing gtk4(4.12.5) from trixie, which can appear as a strictly
> unsupported approach on the EasyEffects wiki.

I very strongly urge you to not do this. gtk 4.12.5 from Debian Trixie
will soon depend on renamed glib packages (and many others) as part of
the 64-bit time_t transition. It will soon be impossible to install
Trixie's gtk4 without upgrading basically your entire system to
Trixie.

Debian Stable is not designed to allow selectively choosing packages
from Unstable or Testing nor is it to run the latest version of all
apps. The one exception is Backports but those are technically not
Trixie packages even though they may look like them. GTK4 is currently
not a good fit for Backports.

The other way to run newer apps on Debian Stable is to use Flatpak or
Snap packages. It looks like easyeffects is available on Flathub but
not in the Snap Store currently.

On behalf of the Debian GNOME team,
Jeremy Bícha