Bug#472048: libmtp7 shouldn't depend on udev

[Rafael Laboissiere]

Dear amarok, gnomad2, and rhythmbox maintainers,

I am forwarding below a thread in debian-devel around Bug#472048. I would
like to now your opinion about it. If you reply, please respect the M-F-T
header.

Thanks,

Rafael

----- Forwarded message from Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org> -----

From: Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#472048: libmtp7 shouldn't depend on udev
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:30:26 +0100
To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org, 472048 at bugs.debian.org
Message-Id: <200803231230.26442.toots at rastageeks.org>
X-Mailing-List: <debian-devel at lists.debian.org> archive/latest/236967

Le Sunday 23 March 2008 10:27:00 Rafael Laboissiere, vous avez écrit :
> [I am moving this discussion into debian-devel, in order to get advise from
> the other developers. Please, respect the M-F-T header.]
>
> The discussion below is about Bug#472048.  I would like to know from people
> using libmtp and its main reverse-dependencies (gnomad2, amarok, and
> rhythmbox) whether it would be okay to change the Depends on udev to
> Suggests, as proposed by the bug submitter.

Recommends seems much better to me, unless you have a general reason for using 
Suggests.

If the submitter wants to install without udev, then Recommends gives him this 
possibility, while most users will still have a full install.


Romain
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