Alternative update procedure.   I found the backporting instructions failed me so instead updated only one package from Testing.  As Head_on_a_Stick pointed out there is a risk as testing and stable diverge of updating packages that break your system.  An alternative is to compile the current pipewire release.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … -/releases

The basic instructions are at  https://pipewire.org but you first probably need to install meson and ninja build tools and some dependencies.   There is a list provided at https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/v … ewire.html. Otherwise, simply follow the instructions below and install packages in response to progressing error messages.  FWIW I installed the following (some of which may not have been needed):

meson libdbus-1-dev libeina1a libecore1 libdbus-c++-dev libao-dev libasound2-dev libeudev-dev
libudev-dev libogg-dev libflac-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libopus-dev libxfixes-dev libvorbis-dev

**Back up your system** - I use fsarchiver to save my root and home partitions.

Install the current version of pipewire for your system.  You will then overwrite it in this process.

Check your current pipewire version and paths with:
pipewire --version
whereis pipewire

The paths should match the installation paths below.

Next clone the pipewire repository with git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire.git

Then cd pipewire and

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

This will install /usr/bin/pipewire /usr/share/pipewire /usr/share/man/man1/pipewire.1.gz

Check version and paths again then follow the instructions to Disable PulseAudio in the post above.

Thanks.  Amended note to reflect the advice (done, I see thanks).

Also, if you use a window manager like dwm, adding the process starts to your window manager init may result in multiple copies of the process if you log off and on again. So I tried creating 3 supervised processes using runit.   Good simple instructions for runit can be found in:

http://kchard.github.io/runit-quickstart/

If you use runsv then top is unable to differentiate the command names so I changed to ps with:

watch -n 5 'ps -ef | egrep "pipewire|audac|vlc|pulse|alsa" | grep -v grep'

Edit: for some reason, the runsv approach gave me problems including firefox & vivaldi not picking up the pipewire-pulse interface.  This might have been due to the changed process names.  So instead I created a batch file that wouldn't create second instances of the programs if called twice. I called it from my dwm autostart and also bound it to an alias in case pipewire crashed for some reason.  The file I used was:

#!/bin/dash

if [ -z "$(ps -ef | rg 'pipewire$' | rg -v rg)" ]; then
    /usr/bin/pipewire &
fi
sleep 0.2
if [ -z "$(ps -ef | rg 'pipewire-media-session' | rg -v rg)" ]; then
    /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session &
fi
if [ -z "$(ps -ef | rg 'pipewire-pulse' | rg -v rg)" ]; then
    /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse &
fi
sleep 0.3
ps -ef | rg "pipewire|audac|vlc|pulse|alsa" | rg -v "rg pi|_restart"

I had tested the easy backporting options and other than having to add a lot of extra files also had some problems with the build.  But I take your point about security so I explored some more.

This strategy also worked.  It has the disadvantage that you'll have to repeat it in future for newer versions of pipewire if you want them but it was simple.

Add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ daedalus main non-free contrib

then

sudo apt update
sudo apt install --upgrade pipewire*

then comment out the line & update again so that you don't accidentally upgrade other packages to daedalus.

Then prevent pulseaudio loading and add 3 lines to your window manager startup or other startup file

/usr/bin/pipewire &
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session &
/usr/bin/pipewire-pulse &

Had OpenRC back in February.  Came back to Devuan and installed with runit looking for simplicity.

Yes I found the black D but that wasn't what I wanted; I liked the one that was used on the website. Sorry about the dud images; it turns out that google drives version of image sharing is a little strange.

Here's a better version of the 64x64

And modified links to the others

28x28 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view … 2VOZgPtb2J
32x32 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view … e8xdc8CyPm
512 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view … VqtCnGpHiY

512 desk current colors.  https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view … x_DFDiKScw