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

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hello,

Le dim. 3 mars 2024 à 10:24, Chris Joelly <ml-debian-cj at joelly.net> a écrit :
> 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.

Looks like a duplicate of https://bugs.debian.org/1062262
Now, we have (only in git for now):

pipewire-jack:
This package contains a plugin for JACK applications to output via PipeWire.

libspa-0.2-jack:
This package contains a plugin to make PipeWire able to connect to a
JACK server, which will be used for audio playback and recording.

I guess it makes things clearer? Feel free to create a merge request to
improve the description.

> 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?

Heu no, I just tried to remove libspa-0.2-jack, then run (after a reboot)
$ pw-jack sndfile-jackplay my_random_wave_file
and it works.


Best,
Dylan