[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#679939: Bug#679939: meta-kde-telepathy depends on obsoloete package telepathy-butterfly

[George Kiagiadakis]

On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> Le Sun, 8 Jul 2012 00:32:33 +0300,
> George Kiagiadakis <kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> I don't really see any mention of telepathy-butterfly here:
>>
>> Package: kde-telepathy-minimal
>> Architecture: all
>> Depends: kde-config-telepathy-accounts (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  kde-telepathy-approver (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  kde-telepathy-auth-handler (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  kde-telepathy-contact-list (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  kde-telepathy-integration-module (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  plasma-widget-telepathy-presence (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  kde-telepathy-text-ui (>= ${ktp:Version}),
>>  telepathy-mission-control-5 (>= 1:5.12),
>>  telepathy-connection-manager,
>>  ${misc:Depends}
>> Recommends: telepathy-gabble, telepathy-salut, telepathy-haze,
>> telepathy-logger Suggests: telepathy-rakia, telepathy-idle
>
> Alexander, could dak be confused with telepathy-connection-manager which
> is a virtual package?
>
> George, I think it's not a good idea (isn't this even against the
> policy?) to only have a virtual package listed in the dependencies, it
> should be something like:
> "telepathy-gabble | telepathy-connection-manager" or it should
> completely be removed.

It's not against policy, at least according to lintian:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends.html

I know it's not a very good idea, but the question is which CM should
be proposed. Can we assume that most users will want to use gabble?