[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1124791: wireplumber: Upgrade to 0.5.13 crashes gnome-shell when connecting bluetooth headphones

[Alban Browaeys]

Control: clone 1124791 -1 -2
Control: reassign -1 gnome-shell
Control: fixed -1 49.3-2
Control: reassign -2 gnome-control-center
Control: fixed -2 49.4-1

On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:14:38 +0200 Claudio Saavedra
<csaavedra at igalia.com> wrote:
> According to upstream this should be fixed with gnome-control-center
> 49.4:
> 
> zmore /usr/share/doc/gnome-control-center/NEWS.gz 
> ============
> Version 49.4
> ============
> 
> - Various translation updates
> 
> Sound/Bluetooth
> - Update libgvc to fix crashes with new pipewire
> 
> 
> See also:
>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/commit/2da4105d1a2c54e47939fbd1c8363560dee8c836
> 
> 



this only fixes gnome control center, not gnome-shell which ships its
own copy of libgvc or one of its library does). 
libgvc is copied into project source directory, it is not a dynamically
loaded library.

Every project including libgvc has to upgraded its copy.

I believe upstream (both GNOME and wireplumber) concluded this is a
libgvc bug. Thus this bug about gnome-shell should be reassigned to
gnome-shell (I could do that on my side if need be) and cloned to every
project in Debian including libgvc (that list I don't know so I cannot
do this clone).
These bugs should be kept opened until a fixed copy is including in
Debian.

For gnome control center we can already conclude that forky and sid are
fixed as they ship 49.4-1.

It seems gnome-shell is fixed in forky (49.3-2) and sid (49.3-3) as:
gnome-shell (49.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload
  * d/patches/libgvc: Update libgvc to prevent crashes with newer
Pipewire.
    This updates it to 47c47a42 (2026-01-23) which is the latest
version,
    and the version currently used in gnome-shell's main branch.
    (Closes: #1126514)
  * d/watch: Convert to v5 format
  * Update Lintian overrides

 -- Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org>  Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:25:18 +0000



Cheers
Alban