Bug#702822: libsdl1.2debian unconditionally depends on libpulse0

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2013/3/11 Andrew Shadura <bugzilla at tut.by>:
> Package: libsdl1.2debian
> Version: 1.2.15-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Please make it optional, not mandatory. Similarly, for -dev package, if
> it's possible.

Is it causing some problem?

According to [1], you can select the driver that you want to use with
the environmnet variable SDL_AUDIODRIVER.  There's a list of them
which tries by default, and "alsa" goes before "pulse".  The fact that
pulls libpulse0 doesn't mean that your system will use pulseaudio as
sound server.

[1] http://www.libsdl.org/docs/html/sdlenvvars.html

libpulse0 pulls a few things, but mostly X11, which one would expect
to use in a system where SDL is used.

On the other hand all GNOME, KDE, gstreamer, phonon, openjdk, libxine,
mplayer and other software will pull this dependency, so it's quite
rare to have a Debian system installed without having this package --
so I don't think that there's much point in trying to avoid it, we
would have to provide different packages for it, and IMO for little
gain.

Cheers.
--
Manuel