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

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi Clément,

On 19/02/2026 18:43, Clément Hermann wrote:
> 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 have always wanted to make pipewire-jack easier to use, but I haven't 
had the time. It would be wonderful if you could propose this feature 
via a salsa MR :-)

Best regards,
Dylan