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.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
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
