Bug#1019971: pipewire: please mention installing pipewire-alsa package in README.Debian

[Dmitry Nezhevenko]

Package: pipewire
Version: 0.3.58-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

I've tried to follow README.Debian of pipewire package. And found that
"Using pipewire as the default ALSA output device" chapter asks to copy
/usr/share/doc/pipewire/examples/alsa.conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf
file.

It looks like this file is present in pipewire-alsa package. Since it is
not installed automatically it's better to mention that this package needs
to be installed.

Btw is there any reason to do this copy manually? Maybe just put
/etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf to pipewire-alsa?

Thanks!

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

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages pipewire depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.64
ii libpipewire-0.3-modules 0.3.58-1
ii pipewire-bin 0.3.58-1

pipewire recommends no packages.

pipewire suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

--
WBR, Dmitry

[Dylan Aïssi]

Hi,

Le sam. 17 sept. 2022 à 18:57, Dmitry Nezhevenko <di...@dion.org.ua> a écrit :
>
> Btw is there any reason to do this copy manually? Maybe just put
> /etc/alsa/conf.d/99-pipewire-default.conf to pipewire-alsa?
>

Since pipewire-alsa has been split from the previous
pipewire-audio-client-libraries package, it would be useful indeed to directly
copy this file in the right location.

But, people upgrading their pipewire-audio-client-libraries package will
have pipewire-alsa installed and that will enable pipewire-alsa on their system
even if it was not enabled before the upgrade.

Then, I will wait at least until Bookworm is released to do it.

Best,
Dylan