Bug#894240: vlc: Application binaries should be in the main package

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

tags 894240 + wontfix
thanks

Le tiistaina 27. maaliskuuta 2018, 20.08.08 EEST asciiwolf at seznam.cz a écrit :
> Package: vlc
> Version: 3.0.1-3
> 
> According to the AppStream specification, the application binary should be
> included in the same package as the .desktop and the AppStream metadata.
> Unfortunately, VLC in Debian has the binaries in vlc-bin package. This
> causes issues with GNOME Software and other modern package managers.
> Please, consider dropping the vlc-bin package and moving its content to the
> vlc package.

That is not possible; it would reopen Debian bug 513177.

The whole point of moving the VLC binary to a different package was to support 
head-less VLC installations.

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