Bug#916298: steam: should depend on steam-devices

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Mon Feb 4 07:59:41 GMT 2019


On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 20:18:15 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Steam developers at Valve consider it to be a bug that the Debian/Ubuntu
> steam package can be installed without also installing the udev rules in
> the steam-devices package: I'm told it's generating a noticeable support
> burden for them.
> 
> Please upgrade the Suggests to a hard dependency, or at least a
> Recommends.

This was reduced from Depends to Recommends in 1.0.0.59-4. Michael:
why this change?

On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 20:50:24 +0300, Alexey Morsov wrote:
> I have steam package installed from debian non-free repo. But after
> steam-launcher removed due to conflict with steam-devices i have no
> .desktop file to launch steam client. 

In version 1.0.0.59-3 I added versioned Breaks that should make sure
you can't have a mixture of Valve and Debian packages that doesn't work
together.

    smcv



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