Bug#575195: opal should build-depend on libsrtp-dev, and libopal-dev should depend on libsrtp0-dev

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Package: opal
Version: 3.6.6~dfsg-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

As subject says, the source package opal should build-depend on virtual
package libsrtp-dev, and the binary package libopal-dev should depend on
the actual implementation of it, libopal0-dev.

Above should be done only for archs for which srtp is actually packaged
- on other archs it is recommended to instead conflict with the virtual
libsrtp-dev, although this only is of severity minor (it gets severity
normal if/when libsrtp gets support for those other archs at a later
point in time).

srtp is currently packaged on the following archs:

  alpha amd64 armel hppa i386 mips mipsel powerpc s390



The reason for this, and for this bugreport not being severity wishlist,
is that opal automagically recognize an installed srtp so may
accidentally link against it, rendering the libopal-dev package broken,
as it then must depend on headers of the used library.

If for some odd reason there is no interest in the use of srtp at all,
then the opal build process might have an option no explicitly avoid it,
which should then be used.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas


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