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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> 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.

What bug is that?

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

Indeed. I guess the situation would be much better expressed by the
Enhances: field, which is as well supported in apt and aptitude as
versioned Suggests (i.e., they do not matter at all in the current
implementation AFAIUI).


>> 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.
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>
> 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.

Correct.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard