[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#563382: gnome-control-center should depend on libcanberra-pulse

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 02 janvier 2010 à 21:06 +0800, James Andrewartha a écrit :
> I recently upgraded from lenny to squeeze, but when I did sound from GNOME
> applications no longer worked. After some stracing, I worked out that
> libcanberra-pulse needed to be installed. As GNOME depends on pulseaudio
> these days, libcanberra-pulse should a hard dependency, instead of a Suggests:
> via libcanberra0 as it is currently.

No, GNOME does not depend on pulseaudio, at least not in Debian.
Introducing the dependency you suggest would make that a hard dependency
so this is not going to happen.

Until pulseaudio can be installed by default (probably not for squeeze),
I see two better alternatives:
      * The pulse module for libcanberra is directly integrated in
        libcanberra, and the pulseaudio dependency is removed (the
        libpulse dependency is not a problem).
      * The pulseaudio package recommends libcanberra-pulse.

Each of these solutions would be enough. I’ll let the maintainers (CCed)
decide which solution they prefer.

Cheers,
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