Created attachment 12873 [details]
urpmi --test --debug output

Cauldron change.

Assigning to package maintainer for advice.

CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud

The final fail statement in the log is:

Installation failed:    pipewire >= 0.2.90 is needed by (installed) xdg-desktop-portal-1.8.1-1.mga9.x86_64

However pipewire-0.3.32-1.mga9.tainted is already installed.

Are tainted packages being properly considered by urpmi?

I have tested in two (plasma) cauldron systems (real and VM) and hit the same issue.

From the log ... The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
pipewire-0.3.32-1.mga9.tainted.x86_64
 (due to missing libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0)(64bit),
  due to missing libpulse.so.0()(64bit))

So the problem appears to be pipewire requiring libs from pulseaudio

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Thanks Dave,
I have taken a look at the change in pipewire requires between Mga8 (0.3.19) and Mga9 (0.3.32)

Sorted and duplicates removed:

--- pipewire_requires_mageia_8 (0.3.19)
+++ pipewire_requires_mageia_9 (0.3.32)
-config(pipewire)
+libavahi-client.so.3
+libavahi-common.so.3
+libbluetooth.so.3
+libc.so.6
+libdl.so.2
+libfdk-aac.so.2
+libgcc_s.so.1
-libjack.so.0
-libncurses.so.6
+libpthread.so.0
+libpulse.so.0
+libstdc++.so.6
-libtinfo.so.6
+libusb-1.0.so.0
+libwebrtc_audio_processing.so.1
+pipewire-session-manager

However this looks critical:
plasma-pa-5.21.5-1.mga9.x86_64
 (due to missing libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0)(64bit),pulseaudio-14.2-4.mga9.x86_64
 (due to conflicts with pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.32-1.mga9.tainted.x86_64)

This in pipewire spec seems to be the cause:

%package pulseaudio
Summary:        PipeWire PulseAudio implementation
License:        MIT
Recommends:     %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
Requires:       %{libname}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
BuildRequires:  %{mklibname pulseaudio 0}
Conflicts:      pulseaudio                        <<############
# Fixed pulseaudio subpackages
Conflicts:      %{name}-libpulse < 0.3.13-6
Conflicts:      %{name}-pulseaudio < 0.3.13-6

There is is an unversioned conflict in pipewire_pulseaudio sub-package.
Removing this and re-building pipewire allows a clean install.

[root@localhost baz]# urpmi pipewire-pulseaudio
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
  Package                        Version      Release       Arch    
(medium "Extra Release")
  lib64pipewire0.3_0             0.3.32       1.1.mga9_bcj  x86_64  
  pipewire                       0.3.32       1.1.mga9_bcj  x86_64  
  pipewire-pulseaudio            0.3.32       1.1.mga9_bcj  x86_64  
1.4KB of disk space will be freed.
1.2MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 3 packages? (Y/n) y


The following packages have bad signatures:
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/lib64pipewire0.3_0-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm: Medium without key (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/pipewire-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm: Medium without key (OK ((none)))
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm: Medium without key (OK ((none)))
Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) y
installing lib64pipewire0.3_0-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm pipewire-0.3.32-1.1.mga9_bcj.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...                     #########################################################################################################################
      1/3: pipewire              #########################################################################################################################
      2/3: lib64pipewire0.3_0    #########################################################################################################################
      3/3: pipewire-pulseaudio   #########################################################################################################################
Created symlink /etc/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire-pulse.socket → /usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.socket.
      1/2: removing lib64pipewire0.3_0-0.3.32-1.mga9.tainted.x86_64
                                 #########################################################################################################################
      2/2: removing pipewire-0.3.32-1.mga9.tainted.x86_64
                                 #########################################################################################################################
[root@localhost baz]#

I did not build it against tainted repo but it installed OK.

Created attachment 12875 [details]
Spec patch

@Thierry
If you are happy with the above change, please advise and I can push it.

I see the pipewire package was updated on Friday but this is still the same.

Bumping this to critical as without this package AFAICT we can't test pipewire in cauldron.

Severity: major => critical

The problem is that nobody copied the work done in Fedora to make PulseAudio and PipeWire-PA swappable. I will fix it, since I implemented this in Fedora originally and know how to do it.

CC: (none) => ngompa13
Assignee: thierry.vignaud => ngompa13

Any news on this?

Adding Thierry to the cc list as the registered maintainer for pipewire

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

This is much improved in cauldron.

Thanks Thierry.

I have now managed to get sound to work using pipewire-pulseaudio in a cauldron VM for the first time tonight!

I have submitted easyeffects which provides a comprehensive equaliser and much more for pipewire. 
Pulseffects, although development has stopped should still work if pulseaudio is retained.

This was very useful in finally getting it set up:
https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire

As far as this bug is concerned the packages that were removed on installation of pipewire-pulseaudio were:

The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
paprefs-1.2-1.mga9.x86_64
 (due to unsatisfied pulseaudio-module-gsettings >= 12.2-3.mga7)
pavucontrol-4.0-4.mga9.x86_64
 (due to missing pulseaudio)
pulseaudio-15.0-3.mga9.x86_64
 (due to conflicts with pulseaudio-daemon)
pulseaudio-module-gsettings-15.0-3.mga9.x86_64
 (due to unsatisfied pulseaudio(x86-64) == 15.0-3.mga9)
pulseaudio-module-x11-15.0-3.mga9.x86_64
 (due to missing libprotocol-native.so()(64bit),
  due to unsatisfied pulseaudio == 15.0-3.mga9)
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf-15.0-3.mga9.x86_64
 (due to missing libprotocol-native.so()(64bit),
  due to unsatisfied pulseaudio == 15.0-3.mga9)
task-pulseaudio-2018.0-2.mga8.noarch
 (due to missing pulseaudio,
  due to missing pulseaudio-module-x11,
  due to missing paprefs)

I allowed those to be removed and after enabling the systemd units etc. with help from the Debian link above, sound was restored. :)

'Pulseaudio volume control' is still available in the menu as it was with PA and the plasma5 panel audio widget still behaves as it did in pulseaudio.

I think this can be closed but will let Thierry comment first. ;)

Yes it can be closed

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED