I just noticed some new Pipewire packages being pulled in with today's d-u. Is this now a mandatory inclusion for Debian going forward?
I read some docs about it and it seems to be trying to address deficiencies in PulseAudio and JACK for unified low-latency media, although PA is quite decent now whereas it took a long time to rectify its initial quirks. I have JACK working quite well in a different media production system too.
It seems like the main focus of Pipewire is to integrate Flatpak media functionality. I'm really averse to any containerised applications and consider them a plague on Linux.
So is Pipewire just another attempt at a standard to standardise all the other standards?