Hi Kraus, Thanks for bringing this up.
On 28/04/2021 03:13, Kraus Shusha wrote: > Greetings, Pulseaudio Maintenance Team and Debian Multimedia Maintainers! > > I come to you with a packaging problem, and I am hoping your two groups > may come up with a solution. > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/pulseaudio-module-jack > > Debian package *pulseaudio-module-jack*, needed for bridging PA and JACK > through *module-jackdbus-detect* seems to be orphaned! pulseaudio-module-jack is part of the pulseaudio source package and is not orphaned. It is a very important package and the maintainers are just looking for extra help as far as I can tell. [snip] > > Eventually, through help of the people on IRC, I was able to discover > this error, and discover pulseaudio-module-jack was missing from my > computer. I installed the package via apt, and the problem was fixed. If you use both Jack and Pulseaudio, then it is a very good idea to install the pulseaudio-module-jack package so that you can bridge Pulseaudio to Jack. UbuntuStudio has included pulseaudio-module-jack in its seeds for a long time (so it is installed by default). Now, UbuntuStudio uses StudioControls and Carla to manage Audio/Jack settings and connections instead of QJackCtl (although it is still installed because it is recommended by the jackd2 package). pulseaudio-module-jack is now a dependency of StudioControls. Unfortunately, StudioControls and Carla are not yet packaged for Debian. > > This poses a problem, because a casual end-user such as myself would > never have guessed why things were broken! There was no error in > QJackCtl, and the PulseAudio Error was hidden in a SystemD's journal. > > To solve this, it was my initial thought that QJackCtl should include > this package, but it was the opinion of the folk in Freenode #lad (Linux > Audio Developers) that PulseAudio package maintainers should have no > reason not to include it with *pulseaudio* because it is needed by ALL > third-party apps that enable jackdbus. pulseaudio-module-jack IS included with PulseAudio, it is just not installed by default in Debian. I see two ways to help fix this: 1. Documentation (wiki?) on how to set up a Pulse+Jack Audio Workstation on Debian. 2. Add a task to our Multimedia Blends to create a meta-package of packages needed to set up a basic Audio Workstation. https://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/ > > Either way, everyone pointed their fingers toward your two groups to > pose my inquiry. > > So, what do either of you think? Should QJackCtl include > pulseaudio-module-jack as a dependency? Or should PulseAudio just > include the package by default to avoid any third-party omissions in the > future? > > Cheers! > > Kraus > QJackCtl works prefectly fine without pulseaudio-module-jack so it should not "Depend" on pulseaudio-module-jack. But maybe a "Suggests" would be a good idea. Feel free to submit a wishlist bug. The uploaders for QJackCtl will then be prompted to consider it at the next upload. Regards, Ross
