Bug#645662: gnome: please re-allow banshee as alternative to rhythmbox

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 07:11:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> severity 645662 wishlist

sorry, forgot to lower the severity myself.

> Am 17.10.2011 18:58, schrieb Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe:
> > gnome2 allowed banshee as an alternative to rhythmbox. gnome3 changed
> > this and now depends on rhythmbox only. Was this intentional? The Debian
> banshee is still GTK 2 only and not ported to the GNOME 3 libs?
> As such it will pull obsolete libs like libwnck22.

... like hamster-applet which gnome depends on? No offense meant.

However, the actual reason for me to request banshee was that I was
originally using it to get rid of rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder which was
the only CD-burning/accessing stuff gnome2 did hard depend on.

Meanwhile, I noticed the hardened dependencies on brasero and
sound-juicer besides rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder as well, so I should
probably re(de)fine my request to soften the dependencies on them for
being able to get rid of CD-stuff on netbooks - just to mention the most
wide-spread use-case for that.

However, it seems like you try to get rid of fine-grained meta-packages
like gnome-desktop-environment, gnome-accessibility, gnome-office, and
soft dependencies in general. Instead, it seems like you are switching
over to centralized and hardened dependencies forcing to pull all and
everything in any case. Hence, I'm not sure how well such requests
comply with your overall packaging strategy.


Thanks for your work & regards
   Mario
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