Bug#448087: please depend on libxine1-x

[Sven Arvidsson]

> Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > The mess with libxine continues, it seems.  Today I was offered an
> > upgrade that would pull in a lot of (for me) unwanted Gnome stuff by
> > libxine1-plugins -> libxine1-gnome, so I said "no" and installed
> > libxine1-misc-plugins instead.  You will not be surprised to read that
> > kaffeine and xine-ui stopped working until I installed libxine1-x.
> >
> > At least until backends actually add dependency on libxine1-x or
> > libxine1-console as mentioned in changelog.Debian, I suspect that
> > quite a few users will fall into this trap.
> 
> Well, that's the consequence of #439389. Thanks for reporting this, I'm
> reassigning this to the relevant packages.
> 
> Frontend Maintainers: In order to ensure that partial upgrades work as
> expected, the xine-lib maintainers suggest that you reupload your
> packages with the following dependency added (c.f. the latest gxine
> upload):
> 
> Depends: [...] libxine1-x | libxine1 (<< 1.1.8-2)

Is a recommends (or depends) on libxine1-x still needed?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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