[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#381971: kmplayer should recommend mplayer

[Fathi Boudra]

severity 381971 wishlist

thanks

hi,

> since kmplayer relies upon mplayer for dvd, wmv, etc support,

wrong, kmplayer on debian relies upon xine backend.
please see http://bugs.debian.org/360092 for the background.

> mplayer should be among the suggests or the recommends for kmplayer so that
> it will be installed if the user always installs recommends/suggests and
> has debian-multimedia.org as an apt source.

See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-sections:

> 2.2.1 The main category
>  Every package in main must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software
> Guidelines). In addition, the packages in main
>  must not require a package outside of main for compilation or execution
> (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or
> "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package), must not be so buggy
> that we refuse to support them, and
>  must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual.

Eventually, i can add a Suggests but not a Recommends, but using Suggests 
doesn't resolve the problem because aptitude installs Recommends packages and 
not Suggests. So i'm waiting for you feedback before tag your bug report 
wontfix or close it.

cheers,

Fathi