Hi, Some «recent» package update broke libcanberra working nicely with the PipeWire pulse server. My system is having the following:
$ dpkg -l | egrep '(pulse|pipewire|canberra)' ii gnome-session-canberra 0.30-7+b1 amd64 GNOME session log in and log out sound events ii gstreamer1.0-pipewire:amd64 0.3.35-1 amd64 GStreamer 1.0 plugin for the PipeWire multimedia server ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.18.5-1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package) ii libcanberra-gstreamer:amd64 0.30-7+b1 amd64 GStreamer backend for libcanberra ii libcanberra-gtk3-0:amd64 0.30-7+b1 amd64 GTK+ 3.0 helper for playing widget event sounds with libcanberra ii libcanberra-gtk3-module:amd64 0.30-7+b1 amd64 translates GTK3 widgets signals to event sounds ii libcanberra-pulse:amd64 0.30-7+b1 amd64 PulseAudio backend for libcanberra ii libcanberra0:amd64 0.30-7+b1 amd64 simple abstract interface for playing event sounds ii libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64 0.3.35-1 amd64 libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server ii libpipewire-0.3-common 0.3.35-1 all libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files ii libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 0.3.35-1 amd64 libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries (glib support) ii libpulse0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulse0:i386 15.0+dfsg1-2 i386 PulseAudio client libraries ii libpulsedsp:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio OSS pre-load library ii pipewire:amd64 0.3.35-1 amd64 audio and video processing engine multimedia server ii pipewire-bin 0.3.35-1 amd64 PipeWire multimedia server - programs ii pipewire-media-session 0.3.35-1 amd64 PipeWire multimedia session manager ii pipewire-pulse 0.3.35-1 amd64 PipeWire PulseAudio daemon ii pulseaudio 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 15.0+dfsg1-2 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server Simply running: $ /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play -f /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga does not provide me any error nor sound. Then (force) removing libcanberra-pulse gives me back again the sound output. Note that I do not know in such case if the sound goes through gstreamer or alsa. But even removing libcanberra-gstreamer package, I am still getting the sound. Moreover: $ paplay /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/bell.oga is working fine. Conclusion: Even if pipewire-pulse provides pulseaudio, not sure that verything will be fine regarding libcanberra. Otherwise everything is fine with pipewire-pulse. Wishes, Patrice On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:24:35 +0300 Guy Rutenberg <guyrutenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: libcanberra-pulse > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-Cc: guyrutenb...@gmail.com > > Dear Maintainer, > > libcanberra-pulse is the default backend for playing notification sounds in > GNOME. Currently it depends directly on pulseaudio. When one wants to > transition from pulseaudio to pipewire, this dependency makes it problematic to > completely remove pulseaudio. The solution is to add "pulseaudio | pipewire- > pulse" as the dependency instead of only pulseaudio. > > See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992686. > > Thanks, > Guy > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: bookworm/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) > Locale: LANG=en_IL, LC_CTYPE=en_IL (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IL:en > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages libcanberra-pulse depends on: > ii libc6 2.31-17 > ii libcanberra0 0.30-7+b1 > ii libpulse0 15.0+dfsg1-2 > pn pulseaudio <none> > > libcanberra-pulse recommends no packages. > >
