[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1128431: pipewire-jack: It would be nice to have pipewire-jack use debconf to propose ld.so configuration

[Clément Hermann]

Package: pipewire-jack
Version: 1.4.10-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

after seeing some users struggle with pipewire-jack because they didn't
read the README, but only external docs not debian-specific, or worse,
asking a LLM prone to hallucinations, I realised it could help a lot to
have a debconf question asking if one wants to use pw-jack to run the
jack compat layer, or use it all the time. If one doesn't intend to use
jackd at all, wich is usually the case of newcomers setting up
pipewire-jack setting up the ld.so config would make more sense.

Still, to allow power-users to use jackd and the jack compat layer only
as an exception, a debconf question that one can change with
dpkg-reconfigure makes most sense to me.

I can propose a patch (or a Salsa MR) if you agree.

Cheers,

-- 
nodens

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

Kernel: Linux 6.18.5+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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                 2.42-10+b1
ii  libpipewire-0.3-0t64  1.4.10-1
ii  pipewire              1.4.10-1

pipewire-jack recommends no packages.

pipewire-jack suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information