Public bug reported: Reported to Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1029377
pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio can be co-installed on a system, but if both are installed at once, the "Recommends: pipewire-alsa" line in pipewire-pulse creates a situation where the dependency cannot be resolved due to a conflict between pipewire-alsa and pulseaudio. This is especially true when both are being seeded in Ubuntu Studio with the intent of being switchable via services with a utility such as Studio Controls. This also causes a regression in https://bugs.debian.org/1020903 in which a conflict existed between pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio that was unnecessary because, as stated in the bug report, both can be installed simultaneously and enabled/disabled via services. If Debian does not resolve this upstream, I recommend we fix this in our own packaging as to not break workflows. Professional audio users cannot use the pipewire-jack system as it does not provide the right kind of functionality for some hardware, which is why the switch was to be implemented. For example, the alsa backend for jack must be disabled for some firewire devices which require the FFADO backend instead. This has been resolved, hopefully temporarily, by removing pulseaudio from Ubuntu Studio's seed. We hope to bring it back, but this issue has caused some very unfortunate issues that will become workflow issues for our users. ** Affects: pipewire (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: pipewire (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #1029377 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029377 ** Also affects: pipewire (Debian) via https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029377 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to pipewire in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2003726 Title: pipewire-pulse unnecessarily recommends pipewire-alsa to emulate pulseaudio's packaging Status in pipewire package in Ubuntu: New Status in pipewire package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: Reported to Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/1029377 pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio can be co-installed on a system, but if both are installed at once, the "Recommends: pipewire-alsa" line in pipewire-pulse creates a situation where the dependency cannot be resolved due to a conflict between pipewire-alsa and pulseaudio. This is especially true when both are being seeded in Ubuntu Studio with the intent of being switchable via services with a utility such as Studio Controls. This also causes a regression in https://bugs.debian.org/1020903 in which a conflict existed between pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio that was unnecessary because, as stated in the bug report, both can be installed simultaneously and enabled/disabled via services. If Debian does not resolve this upstream, I recommend we fix this in our own packaging as to not break workflows. Professional audio users cannot use the pipewire-jack system as it does not provide the right kind of functionality for some hardware, which is why the switch was to be implemented. For example, the alsa backend for jack must be disabled for some firewire devices which require the FFADO backend instead. This has been resolved, hopefully temporarily, by removing pulseaudio from Ubuntu Studio's seed. We hope to bring it back, but this issue has caused some very unfortunate issues that will become workflow issues for our users. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pipewire/+bug/2003726/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
