Bug#542220: simpleopal: Should depend on libpt2.6.4-plugins

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:25:34AM +0200, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:53:49 +0200, Eugen Dedu 
><Eugen.Dedu at pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
>
>>>>For libpt2.6.4, it Suggests.  Do you think it is better to 
>>>>Recommends?
>
>>>Recommends will do because aptitude installs Recommends by default. 
>>>But that means relying on the default. I'd say simpleopal should 
>>>depend on the libpt2.6.4-plugins package because it doesn't work at 
>>>all without it.
>
>>Are you sure it does not work at all without it?
>
>You'd know better if there were any such scenarios. For what I know, 
>without the plugins simpleopal cannot play or record audio, which 
>makes it unusable.

Depending on the -plugins package would be annoying, as it would render 
the individual plugins a joke.  Please if you depend, then include 
fallbacks for *all* the individual plugins - both video and audio ones. 
Something like this:

Recommends: libptXX-plugins-alsa | libptXX-plugins-oss |
  libptXX-plugins, libptXX-plugins-v4l2 | libptXX-plugins-avc |
  libptXX-plugins-dc | libptXX-plugins-v4l | libptXX-plugins


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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