Hi! On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 10:07:55 +0200, Daniel Kobras wrote: > Neil, > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:45:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > I've prepared an NMU for libdv (versioned as 1.0.0-2.1). > > > > With a simple pbuilder check, I believe that installing gnome when this > > modified package is already installed (with recommends on) will result > > in alsa-base being selected and not oss-compat. > > Why should libdv pull in alsa-base when it only supports OSS?
It should not, the NMU is bogus, and should be reverted. In addition, while OSS might be highly deprecated on Linux systems, it's the only portable sound system around, so it needs to be supported anyway for anything non-Linux. > It's legacy code, so most likely upstream will never support any > other sound system. We could of course just demote the Recommends to > a Suggests, meaning that most libdv users won't be able to record > sound by default. Personally I'd find no sound worse than using "deprecated on Linux" OSS... regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
