[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1130264: libspa-0.2-modules: Please make onnxruntime support optional

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

> On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 12:49 PM Diederik de Haas <didi.debian at cknow.org> wrote:
>> Upgrading pipewire to 1.6.x brought in a whopping 50MB+ of additional
>> dependencies and that was related to enabling onnxruntime support.
>> AFAIUI it's for some AI/ML stuff for which I have no need. I'm fine with
>> it being available for people who want it, but I would welcome it if
>> users were given the choice to have it not.

Ouch that is annoying!

On 10/03/2026 18:07, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> Yes, it looks like this feature isn't necessary for Debian:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/6605caa39e
I think I'll move it to another package instead. I'm thinking about 
doing like in Ubuntu and moving some modules into the new 
libpipewire-0.3-modules-extra and libspa-0.2-modules-extra. I imagine 
that will make maintenance in Ubuntu easier.

Best regards,
Dylan