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

[Matěj Laitl]

On 4. 2. 2012 Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that would be best from my point of view. libgpod can be successfully 
used without libgpod-common _only_ under special circumstances, namely with:
 * iPods older than like 3 years
 * iPods that were previously connected to a PC that has libgpod-common 
installed.
With a couple of additional downsides:
 * while older iPods can work, users loose auto-detection of iPod model
 * AFAIK libgpod developers assume that the package is never broken into -lib 
and -common

This would crate circular dependency between libgpod4{,-nogtk} and libgpod-
common, but I think this is okay as they come from the same source package.

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

Indeed.

			Matěj