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-canberra0.30-7+b1
amd64GNOME session log in and log out sound events
ii gstreamer1.0-pipewire:amd64 0.3.35-1
amd64GStreamer 1.0 plugin for the PipeWire multimedia server
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.18.5-1
amd64GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio (transitional package)
ii libcanberra-gstreamer:amd64 0.30-7+b1
amd64GStreamer backend for libcanberra
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0:amd64 0.30-7+b1
amd64GTK+ 3.0 helper for playing widget event sounds with libcanberra
ii libcanberra-gtk3-module:amd64 0.30-7+b1
amd64translates GTK3 widgets signals to event sounds
ii libcanberra-pulse:amd64 0.30-7+b1
amd64PulseAudio backend for libcanberra
ii libcanberra0:amd640.30-7+b1
amd64simple abstract interface for playing event sounds
ii libpipewire-0.3-0:amd64 0.3.35-1
amd64libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server
ii libpipewire-0.3-common0.3.35-1
all libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - common files
ii libpipewire-0.3-modules:amd64 0.3.35-1
amd64libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - modules
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64PulseAudio client libraries (glib support)
ii libpulse0:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulse0:i38615.0+dfsg1-2
i386 PulseAudio client libraries
ii libpulsedsp:amd64 15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64PulseAudio OSS pre-load library
ii pipewire:amd640.3.35-1
amd64audio and video processing engine multimedia server
ii pipewire-bin 0.3.35-1
amd64PipeWire multimedia server - programs
ii pipewire-media-session0.3.35-1
amd64PipeWire multimedia session manager
ii pipewire-pulse0.3.35-1
amd64PipeWire PulseAudio daemon
ii pulseaudio15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
ii pulseaudio-utils 15.0+dfsg1-2
amd64Command 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 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
