On 04/02/2012 05:42, Matěj Laitl wrote: > On 4. 2. 2012 Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Considering libgpod4-nogtk (and presumably the gtk one as well) are, as you >> mentioned, practically useless without the -common package, do you think >> libgpod-common should be bumped up to Depends for both packages instead? > > Yes, that would be best from my point of view. libgpod can be successfully > used without libgpod-common _only_ under special circumstances, namely with: > * iPods older than like 3 years > * iPods that were previously connected to a PC that has libgpod-common > installed. > With a couple of additional downsides: > * while older iPods can work, users loose auto-detection of iPod model > * AFAIK libgpod developers assume that the package is never broken into -lib > and -common
Sounds like Depends would be the right choice here...
> This would crate circular dependency between libgpod4{,-nogtk} and libgpod-
> common, but I think this is okay as they come from the same source package.
...But this sounds like a real problem. It's not okay for circular dependencies
to happen even if they're from the same source package[1]. Perhaps we'll have to
just go with Recommends.
Thanks for spotting this before I made the upload.
> [...]
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg02111.html (#5 under Why?)
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Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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