Bug#624390: Please depend on gstreamer0.10-gconf

[Josh Triplett]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 08:04:23PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 27.10.2011 19:53, schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 06:41:25PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> gnome-media 2.91 depends on gstreamer0.10-gconf and gnome-media is a
> >> dependency of the gnome meta package, so I'd say we can close this bug.
> > 
> > Not quite.  gnome-core depends on various gstreamer output packages, but
> > does not appear to depend on gstreamer0.10-gconf either directly or
> > indirectly.  Since gnome-core depends on gstreamer output packages, it
> > ought to depend on gstreamer0.10-gconf to support the user's preferred
> > output selection.  Please consider adding the dependency there.
> > 
> > (Presumably, in a GNOME 3 world, gstreamer0.10-gconf will at some point
> > become gstreamer0.10-gsettings or gstreamer0.10-dconf or similar, but
> > the point still stands.)
> 
> Well, given that both empathy is in gnome-core and depends on
> gstreamer0.10-gconf, so you also get it if you only install gnome-core.

Huh, I missed that one.  That seems like a slightly odd path to reach
it, and depending on that transitive dependency seems iffy; I'd still
recommend adding a direct dependency.  However, that seems like a
somewhat lower priority now.

- Josh triplett