Bug#539402: quodlibet-plugins: Move musicbrainz and lastfmsubmitd from suggests to depends

[Bhavani Shankar R]

Hello

Sorry for late reply A good idea I  m all for it

Regards and thanks

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Bug#539402: quodlibet-plugins: Move musicbrainz and lastfmsubmitd from suggests to depends

[A. Christine Spang]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:56:13PM +0530, Bhavani Shankar wrote:
>   * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: LP: #403348
>   * debian/control:
> - Moved python-musicbrainz from Suggests to Depends(LP: #139008)
> - Moved lastfmsubmitd from Suggests to Depends(LP: #158335)

I'm not entirely convinced that these packages should be bumped to
Depends. I do realize though that there is a conflict here between not
being confusing for users who want the plugins to just work and not
being annoying to power users who don't want packages on their system
that they're not using (in this case, for plugins they don't use),
especially for things like daemons as is the case with lastfmsubmitd.

What's your opinion of moving all the packages in Suggests: (which are
required only for specific plugins) to Recommends:, rather than your fix
of making them dependencies? That way, for most users, who should have
apt installing Recommends by default if they haven't disabled this
feature, they'll get all the dependencies for all the plugins. But apt
will still allow uninstalling packages that are only required by
specific plugins if the user so desires. The package description could
also be modified to make note of which plugins require which packages.

If you have any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions.

cheers,
Christine



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Bug#539402: quodlibet-plugins: Move musicbrainz and lastfmsubmitd from suggests to depends

[Bhavani Shankar]

Package: quodlibet-plugins
Version: 20090710-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic ubuntu-patch



Hello maintainer,

In Ubuntu, we've applied the attached patch to achieve the following:

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: LP: #403348
  * debian/control:
- Moved python-musicbrainz from Suggests to Depends(LP: #139008)
- Moved lastfmsubmitd from Suggests to Depends(LP: #158335)

We thought you might be interested in doing the same. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 
'hardy-proposed'), (500, 'hardy-backports'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
diff -u quodlibet-plugins-20090710/debian/control 
quodlibet-plugins-20090710/debian/control
--- quodlibet-plugins-20090710/debian/control
+++ quodlibet-plugins-20090710/debian/control
@@ -8,8 +9,8 @@
 
 Package: quodlibet-plugins
 Architecture: all
-Depends: exfalso (>= 2.0), ${python:Depends}
-Suggests: notification-daemon, python-dbus, k3b, python-gnome2, python-cddb, 
python-musicbrainz, lastfmsubmitd
+Depends: exfalso (>= 2.0), ${python:Depends}, python-musicbrainz, lastfmsubmitd
+Suggests: notification-daemon, python-dbus, k3b, python-gnome2, python-cddb
 XB-Python-Version: ${python:Versions}
 Description: various contributed plugins for Quod Libet
  This package contains a number of contributed plugins for the Quod