Bug#895917: Libav-tools relegated to Suggests

[Ross Gammon]

Hi James,

On 06/09/2018 05:33 PM, James Cowgill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 09/06/18 14:17, Ross Gammon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> FFmpeg is already recommended by multimedia-video.
>>
>> Removing libav-tools from the blends task would mean that people running
>> stable would not be able to find the package on the blends website:
>> https://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/
> 
> Is this really a problem? libav-tools was deprecated before stretch was
> released so even in stable people should not be encouraged to install it.
> 
> James
> 

No, it is not really a problem. It is just the way blends work. The
blends website shows you all the packages that are available for you to
install in the e.g. video category.

Libav-tools now shows in the "Official Debian packages with lower
relevance" category (because I dropped it to Suggests):
https://blends.debian.org/multimedia/tasks/video

I don't imagine anyone would be crazy enough to install one of the meta
packages with suggestions included.

Anyway, I suppose libav and ffmpeg is a bit of a special case, as it is
a transitional package. And anyone that is using libav in a script or
whatever will already have it installed. The bug is still open, so when
it is time for the next upload I will remember to remove it.

Thanks for following up with the query.

Cheers,

Ross

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