Trixie Pipewire Pkgs conflicts #7129
Description
Describe the bug
This concerns
pipewire-alsa
pipewire-audio
pipewire-audio-client-libraries
When trying to install any of the above pkgs with apt on 64 bit Raspberry Pi Os Debian Trixie from the Pi OS imager, if one is using using a desktop environment it will cause not only PulseAudio but all the desktop packages to be removed plus their libraries.
This behaviour is very different from that in Debian 12 which will successfully install the packages without removing any desktop environment pkgs beyond the relevant Pulse Audio ones. Numerous attempts were made with the same results.
In trying to work around the problem from the other direction the same pkgs were loaded onto a headless (64 bit OS lite) version successfully. However when one then tries to add a desktop environment such as rpd-wayland-core apt will remove pipewire-alsa, pipewire-audio and pipewire-audio-client-libraries.
Steps to reproduce the behaviour
Simply try installing the pkgs mentioned with apt
Device (s)
Raspberry Pi 5
System
Raspberry PiOs Debian Trixie 64 bit OS 2025-10-01 release
Raspberry Pi Os Debian Full Trixie 64 bit OS 2025-10-01 release
Raspberry Pi Os Lite Debian Trixie 64 bit OS 2025-10-01 release
Numerous clean installs, on different cards, from Pi Imager over the last few days (6th - 8th November 2025). All updated on install
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