When your break your fancy apt-architecture beyond repair aka You have held broken packages (whatever it means), you will be very thankful for snaps and flatpaks.
And make sure it keeps a log of everything it did so it can be rolled back if it doesn't work as promised.
$ sudo aptitude install wine-stable
62) wine32:i386 [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
65) wine64 recommends wine32 (= 3.0-1ubuntu1)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
sergio@sergio-laptop:~ > sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
fonts-liberation fonts-wine libcapi20-3 libodbc2 libosmesa6 libwine libz-mingw-w64 wine64
Suggested packages:
odbc-postgresql tdsodbc ttf-mscorefonts-installer q4wine winbind winetricks playonlinux wine-binfmt dosbox exe-thumbnailer | kio-extras wine64-preloader
Recommended packages:
wine32
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fonts-liberation fonts-wine libcapi20-3 libodbc2 libosmesa6 libwine libz-mingw-w64 wine wine64
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
Need to get 105 MB of archives.
After this operation, 700 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
$ sudo aptitude install paprefs
Keep the following packages at their current version:
...
11) paprefs [Not Installed]
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Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]You can replace pipewire with pulseaudio. It's doable, just not trivial enough for an HN comment. In general, you'd have to force removal of pipewire without removing all dependent packages, install pulseaudio and then have apt check that all dependencies are ok. Then, having Pulseaudio in the system, you can install paprefs, a Pulseaudio application.
As I said, it's a solid system, rather impossible to break into an unrecoverable state.