#1006365 wireplumber: Please split audio files out of the main package

Package:
wireplumber
Source:
wireplumber
Description:
modular session / policy manager for PipeWire
Submitter:
Laurent Bigonville
Date:
2026-03-13 10:25:01 UTC
Severity:
important
Tags:
#1006365#5
Date:
2022-02-24 10:29:55 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

This is similar to #1006364 opened against pipewire-media-session and an
addition to #997862

Currently having wireplumber and pulseaudio installed at the
same time make both pipewire and pulseadio register A2DP endpoints in
bluez (and open the alsa devices)

As pulseaudio is still the default (at least when installing GNOME) this
is causing issues.

Would it be possible to split the configuration and plugins files that
enable the "audio" part of pipewire to an other package? That way
pipewire-pulse could depend on that package instead?

Kind regards,
Laurent Bigonville
#1006365#10
Date:
2022-05-20 20:02:44 UTC
From:
To:
Hello Laurent,

Le jeu. 24 févr. 2022 à 11:33, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> a écrit :
completely break audio.
If we want to stop wireplumber managing audio, we have to modify conf files and
that makes life harder for users who want to switch to PW/WP for audio.
Some related discussion here:
https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/wireplumber/-/merge_requests/7

Arch Linux meets the same issue recently and they had to switch back
to pipewire-media-session:
https://archlinux.org/news/undone-replacement-of-pipewire-media-session-with-wireplumber/

Why a user would install wireplumber without having pipewire managing audio?

Best,
Dylan
#1006365#15
Date:
2023-12-19 09:46:48 UTC
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Le jeu. 24 févr. 2022 à 11:33, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> a écrit :

I tag this bug as wontfix for now. Once wireplumber 0.5 is released,
we can re-evaluate it.

Best,
Dylan
#1006365#22
Date:
2026-02-02 08:48:45 UTC
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2026-03-13 10:24:11 UTC
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