[Bug 2008025] Re: [FFe] studio-controls updates in lunar

[Erich Eickmeyer]

** Description changed:

  This is a preemptive Feature Freeze Exception for Studio Controls. I
  have just been informed by the lead of Studio Controls and part of the
  Ubuntu Studio team, Len Ovens, that he has suffered some health issues.
  This means that the version of Studio Controls needed for compatibility
  with Pipewire will not be ready in time for Lunar Lobster Feature Freeze
  on 2023-02-23.
  
  The features intended include a switch to disable/enable user-level
  systemd services for pipewire-pulse and pulseaudio in addition to the
  pipewire-jack backend and the starting/stopping of native JACK.
  Unfortunately, these components are not yet ready and Len is not well
  enough as of 2023-02-21 to get them ready in 2 days or have even
  something demonstrable.
  
  This FFe will hopefully buy enough time for Len to finish and then we
  can work out bugs later. It is unfortunate that we must work around his
  health on this, but I was only just told of this unfortunate happening
  today.
  
  Do note that this package is only seeded in Ubuntu Studio.
  
  Diffs and changelogs to be included at a later date when we have
  something.
+ 
+ -------------
+ 
+ Update:
+ 
+ studio-controls will not make it in time, so we will be removing it from
+ Ubuntu Studio by default. Instead, it will be installed via a
+ metapackage (ubuntustudio-pulseaudio-config) that breaks the
+ ubuntustudio-pipewire-config package which restores Ubuntu Studio to its
+ traditional pulseaudio state. If ubuntustudio-pipewire-config is ever
+ reinstalled, it will uninstall ubuntustudio-pulseaudio-config which will
+ restore Ubuntu Studio to its default Pipewire state.
+ 
+ Simple metapackage in ubuntustudio-default-settings debian/control
+ follows:
+ 
+ Package: ubuntustudio-pulseaudio-config
+ Architecture: all
+ Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~)
+ Depends: $(misc:Depends),
+          pulseaudio,
+          pulseaudio-module-jack
+ Recommends: studio-controls
+ Breaks: ubuntustudio-pipewire-config,
+         pipewire-pulse,
+         pipewire-jack,
+         wireplumber
+ Description: Deconfigures Pipewire on Ubuntu Studio
+  This metapackage simply removes the default pipewire integration
+  and reinstalls the traditional pulseaudio configuration. Reinstalling
+  ubuntustudio-pipewire-config removes this package and changes
+  the configuration back to default.
+ 
+ This package will be installable via the GUI ubuntustudio-installer.

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  [FFe] studio-controls updates in lunar

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