Bug#1007803: plasma-pa: Could dependency on pulseaudio-module-gsettings be lessened?

[chris <inkbottle007@gmail.com>]

Package: plasma-pa
Version: 4:5.24.3-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: inkbottle007@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

`plasma-pa` has `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` in its recommend dependencies and it is conflicting with `pipewire` / `wireplumber`, because it causes the installation of `pulseaudio`.

At the moment I don't have `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` installed, since it's only a recommend dependency, I'm not compelled to install it.

I've initially put that issue on `pulseaudio-module-gsettings` package, but the maintainer of this package said nothing could be fixed from his side. They also said that installing `pulseaudio` was not conflicting "per se" with `pipewire`. And I want to believe them. I think it does make more complicated to have `pipewire` working.

<quote>
What you really want is the reverse dependencies (either
plasma-pa or paprefs) to not require gsettings, or get pipewire to
implement module-gsettings (and then add the alternative to each package).
See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1066 and
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/771
</quote>

Thanks,
Chris

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages plasma-pa depends on:
ii  libc6                                    2.33-7
ii  libcanberra0                             0.30-8
ii  libglib2.0-0                             2.70.4-1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5                        5.90.0-1
ii  libkf5globalaccel-bin                    5.90.0-1
ii  libkf5globalaccel5                       5.90.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5                              5.90.0-1
ii  libkf5notifications5                     5.90.0-1
ii  libkf5quickaddons5                       5.90.0-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                  15.0+dfsg1-4
ii  libpulse0                                15.0+dfsg1-4
ii  libqt5core5a                             5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5dbus5                              5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5gui5                               5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libqt5qml5                               5.15.2+dfsg-10
ii  libqt5quick5                             5.15.2+dfsg-10
ii  libqt5widgets5                           5.15.2+dfsg-15
ii  libstdc++6                               12-20220313-1
ii  perl                                     5.34.0-3
ii  pipewire-pulse                           0.3.48-1
ii  plasma-framework                         5.90.0-2
ii  qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop           5.90.0-1
ii  qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons  5.90.0-1
ii  qml-module-qtquick-controls              5.15.2-2
ii  qml-module-qtquick-layouts               5.15.2+dfsg-10
ii  qml-module-qtquick2                      5.15.2+dfsg-10

Versions of packages plasma-pa recommends:
ii  libcanberra-pulse            0.30-8
pn  pulseaudio-module-gsettings  <none>
ii  qml-module-gsettings1.0      0.2-4
ii  sound-theme-freedesktop      0.8-2

plasma-pa suggests no packages.

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