Bug#1091863: gnome: choose what music player (if any) is installed by default in trixie

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> * only a simple file-based audio player
>     - Fedora might do this, via Decibels (GNOME Circle)
>     - we cannot do exactly that unless someone packages Decibels or similar
>     - Decibels is not in Debian and likely to be hard to package (it's
>       written in TypeScript)

Since this was written, Decibels has been added to GNOME Core (for
GNOME 48 Alpha). There appear to be no immediate plans to remove GNOME
Music from GNOME Core. GNOME designer Allan Day said this week
"Decibels was originally conceived as a partner to a music app rather
than being a replacement". That surprised me but it does reflect what
the current state is in GNOME Core now.

I wouldn't expect to see Decibels in Debian in time for Trixie at all.
Decibels has been accepted into Fedora.

> For now, I'm going to reduce gnome-music to a Recommends to make it easily
> removable, and update
> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome3/-/merge_requests/10 to
> reduce it further to a Suggests.

This was a good decision and I can live with GNOME Music being in
Recommends. In other words, I am ok with no further action here for
Trixie.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha