use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

The vlc package now uses a Recommends (vlc-plugin-pipewire) to force
users to use pipewire instead of pulseaudio (which broke the use of
VLC, but also apparently ogg123 with the alsa device). IMHO, this is
a bad use of Recommends. It is not up to applications to choose what
sound server to use, even via a meta-package like vlc.

Shouldn't there be something in the policy about that?

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