Bug#800427: cheese: Cheese 3.18 breaks Gnome Contacts 3.18

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

Package: cheese
Version: 3.16.1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Can we seriously cross-reference the test harness dependencies to figure out that when other packages upgrade to GNOME 3.18.0 [Example: gnome-contacts] that adjacent packages, like Cheese 3.18.0 don't break and uninstall already the latest 3.18 packages?

Seriously, this entire upgrade along with the GCC 5 transition is an abomination.

Finish the GCC 5 transition with GNOME 3.16 and then move in 3.18. Too many breaks make zero sense. The Fact gnome-control-center is built but the rquired libgdesktop 3.12 is non-existent and those packages are uploaded to Experimental anyways speaks volumes to the problems not being mitigated to avoid the end user from taking a bath on broken packages.

- Marc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cheese depends on:
ii  cheese-common          3.16.1-1
ii  gnome-video-effects    0.4.1-3
ii  libc6                  2.21-0experimental1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0     0.30-2.1
ii  libcheese-gtk23        3.16.1-1
ii  libcheese7             3.16.1-1
ii  libclutter-1.0-0       1.24.0-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0   1.6.4-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0     2.32.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.46.0-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10  3.16.2-2
ii  libgstreamer1.0-0      1.6.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.18.0-2

Versions of packages cheese recommends:
ii  gnome-icon-theme    3.12.0-1
ii  gvfs                1.25.92-1
ii  hicolor-icon-theme  0.13-1
ii  nautilus-sendto     3.8.2-1
ii  yelp                3.16.1-1

Versions of packages cheese suggests:
pn  gnome-video-effects-frei0r  <none>

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