[Pkg-telepathy-maintainers] Bug#642458: libgstfarsight: Please only recommend gstreamer*bad, good

[Elrond]

Package: libgstfarsight0.10-0
Version: 0.0.20-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

libgstfarsight0.10-0 is often installed as a dependency of
libpurple0 (pidgin and friends). Not everybody wants/uses
the full feature set of libgstfarsight0.10-0. See
bugs.debian.org/550918 as an example.

That said, I would suggest to

* As a minimum:
  Change the Depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad to a
  Recommends. gstreamer*bad is named *bad for a reason. So
  only recommending this seems very reasonable.

* Better:
  Change both gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and -bad to
  Recommends.

  I have tested this. It does not break most of
  the functionality of libpurple0.


Note: Recommends means "You REALLY should install this. If
you don't do it, expect missing functionality" which seems
appropiate here?


Thanks for your considerations

Elrond