Checking my latest Sid installation with cinnamon there are both pipewire and pulseaudio installed by default (not good), but pipewire is running and pulseaudio not, so should be ok, unless some program checks properly and tries to use the inactive one, I have not verified the blueman code.
From the test I did some time ago (I don't remember when) it only installed pipewire correctly, I suppose something has changed which now makes pulseaudio prevail as the first choice of blueman by installing that one too.
I don't have bluetooth audio device to do test.For major of case pipewire and pipewire-pulse are more than fine FWIK, cases where pulseaudio is really needed should remove pipewire or at least make sure pulseaudio is really working.
@phamiet: start to check what is really active (normaly must be only one): systemctl --user status pipewire systemctl --user status pulseaudioAbout check what blueman try to use and if try to use the one not active I don't know how to check.
@Christopher Schramm: now that pipewire seems the default of major of cases (if I'm not wrong) probably is good to consider reversing the priority in the recommended, what do you think? (I mean pulseaudio-module-bluetooth | libspa-0.2-bluetooth -> libspa-0.2-bluetooth | pulseaudio-module-bluetooth)
I tried a very fast check (not sure if complete) in cinnamon related packages:
- cinnamon: libcanberra-pulse (recommends) that have dep. pipewire-pulse | pulseaudio
- cinnamon-settings-daemon: recommends pipewire-pulse | pulseaudioand out of blueman (that is recommend in cinnamon) install pipewire as default but also allows the installation of pulseaudio (for users who need it) via the alternative.
I don't know if it's just blueman or something else that causes pulseaudio to install, have recommends pulseaudio-module-bluetooth | libspa-0.2-bluetooth, pulseaudio-module-bluetooth have dep. pulseaudio
I saw that gnome-core have dep. pipewire-audio with no alternative so force to pipewire and I'm not sure is good the same also in cinnamon that can still support also pulseaudio and few users want to use pulseaudio.
From a fast look gnome don't have dep. or recommends that can install pulseaudio unlike cinnamon which at least has blueman.
As a possible workaround in cinnamon I can think of adding as recommend libspa-0.2-bluetooth | pulseaudio-module-bluetooth but don't seems optimal.
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