Bug#695072: cmus-plugin-ffmpeg: Versioned Suggests/Depends

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Tue Dec 4 07:26:30 UTC 2012


Am 03.12.2012 23:18, schrieb Dominik George:
> The Suggests: on cmus should be versioned. I just upgraded to cmus
> 2.5.0-1 from experimental to reproduce another bug and that broke the
> ffmpeg plugin.

Versioned Suggests are moot. What does help is a Breaks relation 
against unsupported versions of cmus.

> I actually think the plugin should hard depend on cmus and this
> dependency should be versioned. The plugin does not make much sense
> without cmus installed and having the versioned dependency would have
> apt pull in the new plugin version when upgrading cmus itself.

The cmus package currently Recommends the cmus-plugin-ffmpeg package, 
i.e. it gets pulled in by default. Promoting cmus to Depends for this 
package will thus result in a circular dependency chain and that has 
to be avoided.

  - Fabian



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