Deleting jackd2 and reinstalling it leaves pipewire-jack in the system

[peonerow]

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Related Application and/or Package Version (run apt policy $PACKAGE NAME):

jackd2: Installed: 1.9.20~dfsg-1 Candidate: 1.9.20~dfsg-1 Version table: *** 1.9.20~dfsg-1 500 500 http://apt.pop-os.org/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Issue/Bug Description:

Deleting jackd2 with sudo apt remove jackd2 will install all these packages: jackd1 jackd1-firewire libjack0 libspa-0.2-jack pipewire-jack. After reinstalling jackd2 with sudo apt install jackd2 the following packages are removed: jackd1 jackd1-firewire libjack0 (notice that pipewire-jack is missing from the list).

This ends up leaving both jack2 and pipewire-jack on the system, breaking jack. In my case, the only driver it could access was dummy. Deleting pipewire-jack with sudo apt remove pipewire-jack fixes the issue.

Steps to reproduce (if you know):

(I don't know if the system originally comes with pipewire-jack or jackd2, but I will assume that it's jackd2)

sudo apt remove jackd2
sudo apt install jackd2

Expected behavior:

pipewire-jack taking priority over jackd2, making it unable to see any drivers like ALSA.

Other Notes:

Seems like an oversight. Additionally I don't know it's a debian/ubuntu repository issue. I encountered it on Pop, so that's why I'm reporting it here.

[mmstick]

It's how apt is designed. If you want to remove orphaned packages you have to use the autoremove command or flag.

[jacobgkau]

This ends up leaving both jack2 and pipewire-jack on the system, breaking jack.

If the resulting configuration breaks JACK, then maybe pipewire-jack should conflict with jackd2 or something?

Worth noting for how this issue is worded, jackd2 is not installed by default; pipewire-jack is. Does the issue also occur the first time you install jackd2, or only after installing, removing, and then installing again?

pipewire-jack is packaged by Pop!_OS in the PipeWire repository, so I'm transferring the issue there. (jackd2 is packaged by Ubuntu; you can see the difference with apt policy pipewire-jack jackd2.)