[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#565874: Recommends still installs genisoimage by default

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there, both to Joss and George.

For some reason, I didn't receive your e-mails regarding this (probably
some overzealous filter somewhere), but I am now revising the packages
that I maintain and I saw your messages.

On Aug 25 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> thanks for uploading the new dvd+rw-tools version. However moving
> genisoimage to Recommends is insufficient since it will still be
> installed by default.

Oh, right. :-( I always turn off the automatic installation of
recommends on my systems and I didn't notice that. :-(

> Since I understand that you don’t want the growisofs command line to be
> unusable by default, let me suggest another fix:
>
>       * Split growisofs and dvd+rw-format in a new binary package;
>         let’s call it growisofs.

OK. Let me just refresh my mind: your purpose is to throw away
genisoimage/mkisofs and siblings (i.e., kill the cdrkit stuff), right?

In this growisofs package you want just growisofs and dvd+rw-format and
nothing else, right?

>       * Make dvd+rw-tools Depends: growisofs, genisoimage.

OK. Here.

>       * Have growisofs not depend on anything else than
>         ${shlibs:Depends}.
>       * Then I’ll just have to make brasero Depends: growisofs.
>       * PROFIT
> 
> How does that sound?

That sounds perfectly fine with me, apart from having to go through the
NEW queue at this stage. Should I use any higher priority for the
purpose of getting this into testing?

I will be doing that as soon as I finish this message and if you are
on-line, just let me know if you have objections.


Thanks, Rogério Brito.

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