[florian.schlichting at gmx.de: Bug#540891: libjack0: please lower Depends: libffado1, libfreebob0 to Recommends: or Suggests:]

[Adrian Knoth]

Hi!

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is it really necessary to have available libffado1 and libfreebob0 on 
*all* boxes, including those that have never heard of firewire?

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This bug could be fixed by providing a separate jackd-firewire package.
Proposal:

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ad9f440..d79bcaf 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -67,6 +67,22 @@ Description: JACK Audio Connection Kit (libraries)
  .
  This package contains the shared libraries.
 
+Package: jackd-firewire
+Architecture: amd64 i386 powerpc
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
+        ${misc:Depends}
+Conflicts: jackd-firewire (>> ${binary:Version}),
+          jackd-firewire (<< ${binary:Version})
+Suggests: jackd (= ${binary:Version})
+Description: JACK Audio Connection Kit (FFADO and FreeBoB backends)
+ Low-latency sound server. JACK allows the connection of multiple applications
+ to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between
+ themselves.
+ .
+ See <http://jackaudio.org/> for more info.
+ .
+ This package contains the IEEE1394 (FireWire) backends FFADO and FreeBoB.
+
 Package: libjack-dev
 Architecture: any
 Section: libdevel
diff --git a/debian/jackd-firewire.install b/debian/jackd-firewire.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cae6a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/jackd-firewire.install
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+debian/tmp/usr/lib/jack/jack_freebob.so
+debian/tmp/usr/lib/jack/jack_firewire.so


Problem is: I need to exclude jack_{freebob,firewire}.so from libjack0.
Currently, this file reads as follows:

debian/tmp/usr/lib/lib*.so.*
debian/tmp/usr/lib/jack/*.so

Is there a way to specify an exclude in .install files?

If not, are there other ways to achieve this? Like moving the two .so
files to a different directory before libjack0 is created?

Or should I simply list the content of debian/tmp/usr/lib/jack and
dynamically create libjack0.install? (something like ls | grep -v
firewire)?


Another option: statically resolve the wildcard (excluding jack_alsa.so,
it's not available on kfreebsd), name every file explicitly and add
jack_alsa.so conditionally in debian/rules.

What's the recommended approach?


TIA

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