Bug#1103551: shortwave: Panicks on startup

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM Oliver M. Schode
<oliver.schode at online.de> wrote:
> Likely a false positive as I expected shortwave to be runnable
> standalone. Didn't even know what a Circle app is exactly, so I assume
> now it depends on a complete GNOME environment? If so, I should be
> surprised if this is the right way way to put it in Debian. That's what
> we have dependencies for, and why users rely on it, a simple hint in the
> package description is no great help. The package should not be
> installable as is, but apparently all of the Circle apps are. Either
> way, if I was doing it wrong please close.

No, this is a valid bug. I encourage you to report bugs like this when
you see them. Could you try installing gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and
see if it fixes your issue?

A manpage would not help at all here. shortwave does not have any
command-line options so there really isn't anything to document in a
manpage. It could provide user help like several other GNOME apps do
that would be viewable with GNOME's help browser app, yelp.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha