lives: Depending on plugins? Suggesting with archs?

IOhannes m zmölnig zmoelnig at umlaeute.mur.at
Wed Aug 26 12:43:12 UTC 2015


On 08/26/2015 12:28 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 8:50 PM, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU)
> <umlaeute at debian.org> wrote:
>> i wonder why lives has a *hard* dependency on frei0r-plugins.
>> will it refuse work if that set of plugins (that are dlopen()ed) are not
>> present on the system?
> 
> Nope, it won't, though both the build the runtime dependencies are
> highly recommended by upstream.

isn't that what "Recommends" is for?


> 
>> i also wonder why there is an arch-specification in the 'Suggests':
>>  "Suggests: libdv-bin[!hurd-i386]"
> 
> Well, no clear answer here, we should investigate with git blame. I
> guess that it would cause no big issues to either adjust it or keep it
> as it is now though.

it seems like this was added by harry, back then in svn rev.14167:

"Removed libdv4 and libdv-bin for hurd-i386"

back then, libdv4 was a (non-automatic) "Depends".
i think that the arch for Suggests:libdv-bin was mainly added for
symmetric reasons.

now that i have done this, i did a quick check of the buildd logs only
to discover that libdv is already available on hurd.

the same goes for ogmtools, libdirectfb, libtheora.

and these days frei0r seems to be available on all platforms that are
blacklisted.


fdasr
IOhannes

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