[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#486382: libgpod3: should not recommend libgpod-common

[Frans Pop]

Package: libgpod
Version: 0.6.0-5
Severity: important

It seems to me that the dependency on libgpod-common does not satisfy the 
policy requirement for Recommends:
   This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. 

   The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
   with this one in all but unusual installations.

The library gets pulled in by for example the very popular applications 
amarok, rhythmbox and lastfm, and I would expect a great many of them do 
not have an iPod (I know I don't), thus making libgpod-common useless for 
them.

Therefore the dependency fails the "in all but unusual installations" 
requirement. Please consider either dropping the dependency, or lowering 
it to Suggests so libgpod-common does not get pulled in needlessly by 
default when people install any of the reverse dependencies of libgpod3.

TIA
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