Bug#1055027: Document workaround for potentially unusable pipewire-jack

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-...@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Control: block 1054019 by -1

Hello,

When I switched to Pipewire for bookworm I learned that pipewire-jack
wasn't yet ready for general use due to broken sample rate
pass-through, as well as frequent Ardour hangs. Thus I filed a bug
(#1054019), tested the proposed workaround, and Dylan Aïssi gave me
the ACK to document it.

After all, it's nice when release notes answer "Is $new_technology
ready to switch to, are there caveats, or do I need to wait for the
next Debian stable release" :)

I've prepared a draft in the following merge request, and I suspect it
needs edits before it's ready to merge:

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/201

Thank you,
Nicholas

[Paul Gevers]

Hi

On 29-10-2023 19:14, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> When I switched to Pipewire for bookworm I learned that pipewire-jack
> wasn't yet ready for general use due to broken sample rate
> pass-through, as well as frequent Ardour hangs. Thus I filed a bug
> (#1054019), tested the proposed workaround, and Dylan Aïssi gave me
> the ACK to document it.

If it's broken, instead of recommending bookworm-backports, can't we fix
it in a point release?

Paul