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Re: use of Recommends by vlc to force users to use pipewire



On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 10:55:55AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > >  a) pipewire package enables pipewire service by default
> > 
> > Indeed, but pipewire service doesn't take control of audio over
> > pulseaudio. Only pipewire-pulse does that.
> 
> This is incorrect. The pipewire-pulse package was not installed
> at all (pipewire-pulse had been installed automatically in
> October 2021 due to dependencies, but the change was reverted,
> and the package got removed on my machine 3 days later).
> 
> I don't know whether this could cause the issue, but
> pipewire-media-session was installed, because pipewire-bin
> recommends it. There were already issues with it in the past:
What issues?

> https://tracker.debian.org/news/1271014/accepted-pipewire-0339-3-source-into-unstable/
> which says:
> 
>    * Remove pipewire-media-session from Recommends.
>        (Closes: #995116, #996994, #997859)
The context of this was "replace pipewire-media-session with wireplumber"
and it was rolled back in the next upload as you can see in d/changelog.


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