Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire
On 2022-05-28 10:41:34 +0200, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
> On 2022-05-28 01:27:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2022-05-27 12:34:26 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
[...]
> > > That's needed for Bluetooth audio, *if* you are using Pipewire for audio,
> > > which (as a distribution) we are not yet aiming to do. It isn't needed
> > > (or useful) if you are only using Pipewire as a video multiplexer.
> >
> > The issue appeared automatically with the upgrade of the vlc package.
> >
> > > pipewire-pulse should probably have a Recommends on libspa-0.2-bluetooth,
> > > if people consider Bluetooth audio to be sufficiently important to
> > > justify that (of course, every critical feature for one user is considered
> > > "bloat" by someone else, so we can't win). pipewire probably shouldn't,
> > > until such time as we are ready to recommend Pipewire as a replacement
> > > for PulseAudio.
> >
> > So why did Sebastian Ramacher reassign bug 1011035 to pipewire?
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1011035#22
>
> If pipewire-pulse is the better place for this relationship, feel free
> to reassign it.
My comment was on "until such time as we are ready to recommend
Pipewire as a replacement for PulseAudio". If Debian is not ready
to use Pipewire as a replacement for PulseAudio, then VLC shouldn't
try to use Pipewire by default instead of PulseAudio. So that would
be a bug in VLC.
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