Bug#1103551: shortwave: Additional info re dependencies

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM Oliver M. Schode
<oliver.schode at online.de> wrote:
> Thanks! While the original issue was quickly fixed, I got stuck a few
> more times and it turned out this time indeed due to missing
> dependencies. Just for completeness and on the off chance it may be of
> help to someone, here's how I got it working. For one thing, shortwave
> requires PulseAudio, for those who don't yet have it that's the obvious
> route.
>
> If PA isn't wanted, wrapping it in apulse also works. But then in
> addition one wants
>
>     gstreamer1.0-alsa
>     apulse

Neither of those 2 suggested packages are required for Debian GNOME
which uses pipewire (specifically it installs the pipewire-audio
package). I don't know exactly what other desktops are using in
Debian. I'm going to leave the task of having working sound to the
desktop environments. If you're not using a major desktop, you may be
on your own here.

> In any case, for AAC-encoded streams
>
>     gstreamer1.0-fdkaac
>     libfdk-aac2

Those are not in Debian main so it's not possible for shortwave to
have a Depends or Recommends relationship to them.

Thank you for confirming that you got shortwave working now.

The mention of GNOME Circle in the package description is to help
people easily find apps which are part of the program. GNOME Circle
apps are verified to be high quality apps that work well with GNOME.
See
https://apps.gnome.org/#circle

Jeremy Bícha