Bug#601725: pulseaudio: Recommends: pulseaudio-esound-compat

[Jonathan Nieder]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.21-3

If I remember correctly[1], Recommends is meant to be used for
packages that would be in Depends except that some unusual
configuration omits them[2].

Does pulseaudio require the esound compat module to act as a
pulseaudio server in any installation?

If so, the package description should explain this.  If not, the
Recommends should be propagated back to whatever task or package
needs it (if any) and converted to Suggests.

Thanks for maintaining a pleasant sound stack.

Regards,
Jonathan

[1] unfortunately policy is vague about this:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps

[2] For example, the X server used to declare that it Recommends a
font server, since a font server was required for X to start, but some
rare installations used a remote font server and thus did not require
a local one.  (Of course, nowadays the font handling is built into
xserver-xorg.)