Bug#663213: pulseaudio-utils: please add "Suggests: pulseaudio"

[Justin B Rye]

Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 1.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

These utilities absolutely require a PA server, either locally
installed or, less often, via the network (usually meaning avahi).  So
shouldn't that "Suggests: avahi-daemon" dependency be at least
"Suggests: avahi-daemon, pulseaudio"?

Given that the average desktop PC won't have a server to connect to,
I'm tempted to argue for "Recommends: pulseaudio | avahi-daemon", but
that's not what's in my patch.

Yes, the connection between pulseaudio-utils and pulseaudio is
obvious from the packagename and description, but it would still be
nice to have it reflected in the dependencies.  Compare the way
alsa-utils "Recommends: alsa-base".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils depends on:
ii  libc6        2.13-27
ii  libcap2      1:2.22-1
ii  libice6      2:1.0.7-2
ii  libpulse0    1.1-3
ii  libsm6       2:1.2.0-2
ii  libsndfile1  1.0.25-4
ii  libx11-6     2:1.4.4-4
ii  libx11-xcb1  2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxcb1      1.8-2
ii  libxtst6     2:1.2.0-4

pulseaudio-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils suggests:
pn  avahi-daemon  <none>

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JBR
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