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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:15:32AM +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
>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.

Are, ok.  Then my comment above is irrelevant.


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

That depends on the severity of the needed requirement.  Above comment 
is only *if* you depend or recommend.  See my earlier comment (which I 
believe noone responded to yet).


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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