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Add Conflicts: wireplumber, Recommends: pipewire-media-session

Arnaud Rebillout requested to merge fix-sound into kali/master

In a recent change in the pipewire package in Debian, wireplumber was introduced as a Recommends. Unfortunately it was added BEFORE pipewire-media-session, and that broke the sound for many users.

Cf:

Even though the pipewire package is fixed from 0.3.40-2 onward, systems which already have wireplumber installed due to this change are still broken. Running apt upgrade won't remove wireplumber and replace it by pipewire-media-session.

And that's pretty much every Kali system, since Kali 2021.4 was shipped with the broken pipewire...

So we must force the removal of wireplumber, and make sure it's replaced with pipewire-media-session. It seems that the best way to do that is to add a (temporary) Conflicts+Recommends. A Conflicts alone is not enough.

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