hal wrote:
> Hi,
> I upgraded Beowulf > Chimera a month back or so. It went well. I'm
> trying to experiment with Pipewire and running into a problem. apt is
> telling[1] me that I have broken packages. Not sure if this is
> something I did, or related to the upgrade, or what.
>
> I recall trying Pipewire last year but don't remember if I installed
> any out-of-band version that may be confusing apt. dpkg shows
> pipewire:amd64 0.3.19-4 is installed and that is the version apt
> reports as well so I don't think it's a leftover. I don't have any
> active 3rd party apt repos for Pipewire.
>
> When I look for[2] held packages with dpkg, It looks like Pipewire is
> in the "held" state due to it being queued for deinstall? Any thoughts
> how to fix it?
>
> Thanks
>
>

# apt depends pipewire-alsa
pipewire-alsa
  Depends: pipewire (= 0.3.63-1~bpo11+1)
  Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.1.7)
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17)
  Depends: libpipewire-0.3-0 (= 0.3.63-1~bpo11+1)
  Breaks: pipewire-audio-client-libraries (<< 0.3.54-1~)
  Replaces: pipewire-audio-client-libraries (<< 0.3.54-1~)

# apt-cache policy pipewire
pipewire:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.3.19-4
  Version table:
     0.3.63-1~bpo11+1 100
        100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports/main amd64
Packages
     0.3.19-4 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64 Packages

# apt-cache policy libpipewire-0.3.0
libpipewire-0.3-0:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.3.19-4
  Version table:
     0.3.63-1~bpo11+1 100
        100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports/main amd64
Packages
     0.3.19-4 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera/main amd64 Packages

It looks like you need the backports version of pipewire and
libpipewire-0.3.0

Try, apt install -t chimaera-backports pipewire libpipewire-0.3.0
pipewire-alsa

Of course, this assumes you have chimaera-backports in your apt
sources.  You may need to add it.