Bug#1107132: Mate Core: Package should depend on pipewire-audio
On Tue, Jun 17, 2025, at 3:15 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Brandon,
>
> On So 01 Jun 2025 22:44:25 CEST, Brandon Werner wrote:
>
>> Package: mate-core
>> Version: 1.26.0+1
>>
>> During the Trixie development cycle, Mate changed from installing a
>> Pulseaudio setup to an only partially working Pipewire setup. This
>> is because a package that mate depends on switched its dependency
>> from pulseaudio to pipewire-pulse.
>> Mates Pipewire support is not complete, because for a recommended
>> setup, the metapackage pipewire-audio needs to also be installed,
>> which enables Alsa support and a few other things. Pipewire-pulse
>> only pulls in some of the recommended Pipewire packages. I am filing
>> the bug against this package, because Gnome pulls in pipewire-audio
>> via its gnome-core package, so mate-core seems like a good place to
>> pull in the dependency for Mate.
>
> so pulling in pipewire-audio via mate-core is sufficient? Or do we
> need to adjust other packages, too?
>
Looking at this more closely, the correct package to contain the pipewire-audio dependency is actually mate-desktop-environment-core. Mate-core is a dummy package that depends on mate-desktop-environment-core. I think adjusting the one package mate-desktop-environment-core is sufficient.
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