Bug#822703: vlc: Too broad dependencies of the package

[Mateusz Łukasik]

On 26.04.2016 20:20 +0200, Vladimir Kudrya wrote:

> Dear Maintainer, vlc package has some questionable dependencies,
> In particular:
>    libfreerdp-cache1.1 libfreerdp-client1.1 libfreerdp-codec1.1
>    libfreerdp-common1.1.0 libfreerdp-core1.1 libfreerdp-crypto1.1
>    libfreerdp-gdi1.1 libfreerdp-locale1.1 libfreerdp-primitives1.1
>    libfreerdp-utils1.1 libwinpr-crt0.1 libwinpr-crypto0.1 libwinpr-dsparse0.1
>    libwinpr-environment0.1 libwinpr-file0.1 libwinpr-handle0.1 libwinpr-heap0.1
>    libwinpr-input0.1 libwinpr-interlocked0.1 libwinpr-library0.1
>    libwinpr-path0.1 libwinpr-pool0.1 libwinpr-registry0.1 libwinpr-rpc0.1
>    libwinpr-sspi0.1 libwinpr-synch0.1 libwinpr-sysinfo0.1 libwinpr-thread0.1
>    libwinpr-utils0.1
>
> This is especially counter-intuitive when trying to install something that
> obscurely depends on vlc.
> For example, installing ksshaskpass, which presumably has small dependency
> footprint (in source code: CoreAddons, I18n, Wallet, WidgetsAddons), brings
> in phonon, phonon brings vlc, vlc brings freerdp, which brings libwinpr.
>
> Perhaps, this chain should be broken in couple of places by making some
> depependencies optional.


Hello Vladimir,

I agree with that. I have build my own package with separate freerdp 
plugin to reduce depends. Officially we want to build this plugin and 
others plugins as separate packages after release 3.0. Now is useless,
because after this changes sources need go to NEW queue.


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