Debian package qubes-audio-daemon depends on pulseaudio package

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Qubes OS release

R4.2.3

Brief summary

Debian12 package qubes-audio-daemon depends on pulseaudio package (it doesn't happen for fedora). As a consequence, when creating a sys-audio qube based on pipewire I still have to install pulseaudio package. It seems that installing pipewire-pulseaudio should be enough as it provides pulse-audio daemon.

Steps to reproduce

In the audio-template used to create the sys-audio qube I cannot remove pulseaudio:

# apt remove pulseaudio
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  pulseaudio pulseausio-module-bluetooth qubes-audio-daemon
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 7038 kB disk space will be freed.
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Expected behavior

When using a sys-audio qube based on pipewire it shouldn't be mandatory to install pulseaudio package.

Actual behavior

In the audio-template used to create the sys-audio qube I have to install pulseaudio as the required package qubes-audio-daemon depends on it:

$ apt info qubes-audio-daemon
Package: qubes-audio-daemon
Version: 4.2.8-1+deb12u1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Source: qubes-gui-daemon
Maintainer: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]>
Installed-Size: 60.4 kB
Depends: pulseaudio, libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (>= 0.99.1), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libvchan-xen1 (>= 4.2.0)
Breaks: qubes-gui-daemon-pulseaudio (<< 4.1.21~)
Replaces: qubes-gui-daemon-pulseaudio (<< 4.1.21~)