[Bug 1977564] [NEW] wireplumber conflicts with pipewire-media-session & needs fixing

[Jeremy Bicha]

Public bug reported:

This issue was reported on IRC and we should probably fix it before
installing wireplumber by default so I'm setting the block-proposed tag.

https://i.imgur.com/L5VFZO8.png

wireplumber is apparently too forceful in how it enables PipeWire. Both
Arch Linux and Debian had to

https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-session-
with-wireplumber/

Is it necessary for wireplumber to conflict with pipewire-media-session?

Should we add Replaces?

What files does pipewire-media-session need to clean up when it is
removed?

See https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-remote-
desktop/-/commit/52799cfd for an example of how files that aren't
technically conffiles can be removed.

** Affects: pipewire-media-session (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: wireplumber (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
         Status: Triaged

** Affects: pipewire-media-session (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown


** Tags: block-proposed kinetic rls-kk-incoming

** Also affects: wireplumber (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: pipewire-media-session (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: wireplumber (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: wireplumber (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: pipewire-media-session (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: pipewire-media-session (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #997818
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997818

** Also affects: pipewire-media-session (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=997818
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  wireplumber conflicts with pipewire-media-session & needs fixing

Status in pipewire-media-session package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in wireplumber package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in pipewire-media-session package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  This issue was reported on IRC and we should probably fix it before
  installing wireplumber by default so I'm setting the block-proposed
  tag.

  https://i.imgur.com/L5VFZO8.png

  wireplumber is apparently too forceful in how it enables PipeWire.
  Both Arch Linux and Debian had to

  https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-
  session-with-wireplumber/

  Is it necessary for wireplumber to conflict with pipewire-media-
  session?

  Should we add Replaces?

  What files does pipewire-media-session need to clean up when it is
  removed?

  See https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-remote-
  desktop/-/commit/52799cfd for an example of how files that aren't
  technically conffiles can be removed.

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