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

[Eugen Dedu]

Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 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

Note that starting from 2.6.4, all the plugins have been grouped into
one package, libpt2.6.4-plugins, cf.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/ptlib.html.

So is it ok for Depend on the -plugins package?

-- 
Eugen