Package: libpipewire-0.3-0 Version: 0.3.51-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Several packages depend on libpipewire-0.3-0 in order to have pipewire *support* (but they don't need pipewire: the user may want to use pulseaudio). However, libpipewire-0.3-0 currently has "Recommends: pipewire [...]", which means that the pipewire package is installed as a consequence, which runs the pipewire server automatically. FYI, xdg-desktop-portal depends on libpipewire-0.3-0, and xdg-desktop-portal is automatically installed via dependencies from packages like atril (a document viewer), gnucash and viking. Until now, this did not seem to have any major drawback (except that having a useless server running, just because that one wants pacakges like atril, gnucash or viking). But now that vlc has pipewire support in its plugins recommended by default, this breaks VLC when one just wants to use pulseaudio. Worse, this also breaks ogg123, with apparently ***no way of going back*** (I suspect that the use of pipewire changed something in the configuration), unlike VLC. Packages that need the pipewire server (instead of only pipewire support) could just depend on (or recommend) the pipewire package directly. Users who want the pipewire server can install the package directly. Note that usually, libraries do not depend on packages providing daemons. So, in short: * The "Recommends: pipewire [...]" is useless. * It breaks other software, even not written with pipewire in mind. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libpipewire-0.3-0 depends on: ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libspa-0.2-modules 0.3.51-1 Versions of packages libpipewire-0.3-0 recommends: ii libpipewire-0.3-common 0.3.51-1 ii pipewire 0.3.51-1 libpipewire-0.3-0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
