[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#658538: Further explanation

[Chow Loong Jin]

On 04/02/2012 04:34, Matěj Laitl wrote:
> Hello,
> to explain further, in order for libgpod to be able to actually write valid 
> iPod database on all new models, it needs to know its model, firewire id and 
> sometimes more. This information is automatically extracted thanks to udev 
> hook from libgpod-common and written to 
> <iPod>/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfoExtended every time iPod is plugged in.
> 
> I'm an Amarok developer working on iPod support and we've faces several users 
> who found their iPod unusable because of missing SysInfoExtended file. For more 
> information please see [1].
> 
> [1] 
> http://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gtkpod/libgpod;a=blob;f=README.overview

Hi Matěj,

Thanks for reporting the bug. It looks like an artifact from Bug #486382.

Considering libgpod4-nogtk (and presumably the gtk one as well) are, as you
mentioned, practically useless without the -common package, do you think
libgpod-common should be bumped up to Depends for both packages instead?

libgpod-common itself is pretty small (28974 on Ubuntu), so it should be pretty
harmless to move it to Depends in my opinion.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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