PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus [LWN.net]

PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Posted Mar 8, 2021 6:43 UTC (Mon) by joib (subscriber, #8541)
In reply to: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus by smcv
Parent article: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

> I suspect PipeWire for audio might become the recommendation in the Debian 12 cycle if more knowledgeable maintainers step in.

Thanks for the heads-up, and for your work in this. Hope things get sorted out for Debian 12 and the next Ubuntu LTS (22.04?).

And getting a bit off-topic, this seems to be another example where the Debian "culture" (or what should it be called?) of packages by default being single-maintainer fiefdoms is hurtful to the project and users. Hopefully this can eventually be fixed as well (though I'm not holding my breath).

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PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus

Posted Mar 9, 2021 18:29 UTC (Tue) by emorrp1 (guest, #99512) [Link]

Well it is part of the Utopia team, otherwise smcv would have had to go via NMUs, but that does seem to be a very loose collection of desktop software. Some teams do make deliberate effort to upload each others packages (IIRC started by debian-med advertising team graphs), others contribute but tend to let the primary uploader do their thing.

This graph shows pretty clearly that the fiefdom culture is now largely an historical artifact, but ultimately everything relies on volunteers, and therefore interest/buy-in from someone other than the initial uploader.