Bug#1103904: ITP: pwvucontrol -- pipewire volume control

On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:07, Christopher Obbard <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey,
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>I am happy to help with packaging this. Feel free to put me in Uploaders.
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>Just a couple of quick thoughts:
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>The package isn't published on crates.io. How do we solve that in debcargo-config? I guess since it'll be vendored you'll most likely create its own repo and not use debcargo-conf?
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Yes, that will be vendored to debian/missing-sources.
>I looked at cargo debstatus for this package; here's a short summary:
>```
>cargo debstatus --all-features --no-dev-dependencies
> 🪏  pwvucontrol v0.5.3 (in workspace, /home/obbardc/projects/git/pwvucontrol)
> 🔴 ├── wireplumber v0.2.0 (git+https://github.com/saivert/wireplumber.rs.git?branch=wp-0.5-glib-0.21-pipewire-0.9#04fbbc6ea157cdd7061f6a5f2a6b22e102fccbcc)
>    ├── anyhow v1.0.103 (in debian)
>    ├── formatx v0.2.4 (in debian)
>    ├── futures v0.3.32 (in debian)
>    ├── gettext-rs v0.7.7 (in debian)
> 🔽 ├── glib v0.21.5 (newer, 0.22.7 in debian)
> 🔽 ├── gtk4 v0.10.3 (newer, 0.11.3 in debian)
> 🔴 ├── imbl v3.0.0
> 🔽 ├── libadwaita v0.8.1 (newer, 0.9.1 in debian)
>    ├── log v0.4.33 (0.4.32 in debian)
>    └── pipewire v0.9.2 (in debian)
>```
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>I tried patching out the gnome deps to latest in Debian; but it failed to build with ~88 errors. I didn't go any further.
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Yeah that does seem not easily fixable.
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>For the crate to build, I needed these B-d:
>blueprint-compiler
>libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev
>libgtk-4-dev
>libadwaita-1-dev
>libpipewire-0.3-dev
>libwireplumber-0.5-dev
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>Since upstream uses meson, I had to go the long way around to generate the resources etc:
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>meson setup builddir
>meson compile -C builddir dev-schema
>meson compile -C builddir blueprints
>meson compile -C builddir resources_gresource
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>GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="$PWD/builddir/data" \
>GSETTINGS_BACKEND=memory \
>PWVUCONTROL_RESOURCEDIR="$PWD/builddir/data/resources" \
>cargo run
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That should happen automatically with meson build. Given upstream is 
still on gtk-rs 0.10 I am considering to keep this shelved for now.
I filed https://github.com/saivert/pwvucontrol/issues/117.
The FFI bindings are not that trivial to update, and I do not want to 
vendor all of gtk-rs; just the wireplumber crate.

best,