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.d...@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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