Bug#989845: pulseaudio: Needless Depends: on libasound2-plugins should be turned back into Recommends:

[Felipe Sateler]

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On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 2:51 PM Dennis Filder <d.filder at web.de> wrote:

> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 14.2-2
> Severity: normal
> Control: found -1 0.99.1-1
> X-Debbugs-CC: d.filder at web.de
>
> While investigating #963582 I took a closer look at the dependencies
> of pulseaudio, and I noticed something odd: As part of the changes for
> 0.99.1-1 the Recommends: on libasound2-plugins hard-coded in
> debian/control was turned into a Depends:.  The commit message in
> question[0] just reads: "tweak depends slightly" which is very quaint
> considering that the transitive Depends: closure of libasound2-plugins
> includes (among others) libavcodec58 and weighs in at a grand total of
> 200 MB.  The context of the changelog suggests that this was done to
> make the package more similar to how Ubuntu packages pulseaudio, and
> the maintainer just didn't realize the ramifications.
>
> Considering that this was probably just a mistake and the inordinate
> amount of additional disk space usage incurred by it I think this
> change should be undone.
>

Well, without libasound2-plugins plain alsa apps cannot output to
pulseaudio. That's the reason we want it. OTOH, this may fit the definition
of "all but unusual installations".

Happy to review a salsa MRs, especially if they also address 963582.

It is obviously too late for bullseye, but we can target the next release,
and doing this sort of change at the beginning of the cycle might be a good
idea.
-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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