#1138540 pipewire: Pipewire should at least recommend if not require 'rtkit' package.

Package:
pipewire
Source:
pipewire
Description:
audio and video processing engine multimedia server
Submitter:
Michael Bridge
Date:
2026-10-20 12:41:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1138540#5
Date:
2026-05-31 14:49:42 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

When building a new system with Debian Trixie, 25% of log entries (notice and above) come from pipewire with a root cause of package 'rtkit' not being installed. Recommend that the 'rtkit' package be included as a required or recommended dependency and ship with the default configuration. Installation of package 'rtkit' causes the log spam to stop.
#1138540#10
Date:
2026-09-30 10:40:51 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

The package pipewire depends on pipewire-bin which recommends rtkit
since 0.3.36-1 (pre-bookworm). So something wrong when you built your
system?


Best regards,
Dylan