Bug#493948: gnome should depend on swfdec-gnome, not swfdec-mozilla

[Olivier Berger]

Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

> Le mercredi 06 août 2008 à 08:11 +0200, Olivier Berger a écrit :

>> Hi.
>> 
>> I can't understand the rationale here that gnome package depends on
>> swfdec-mozilla, and not swfdec-gnome.
>
> gnome-desktop-environment (which provides the official GNOME desktop,
> minus Mono stuff) already depends on swfdec-gnome.
>
>> Is this just a typo ?
>
> No.

OK... maybe something to be added to the release notes of lenny then ?

>
>> In any case, forcing the use of one flash decoder inside the web browser
>> (used outside of gnome too) doesn't seem right to me.
>
> It is well known and unfortunate that mozilla lacks a plugin manager,
> but this shouldn’t prevent a metapackage to provide a *complete*
> environment.

Would it need exactly swfdec-mozilla, or any flash playing plugin
(like the gnash one) ? ... It seems to me that recent additions to
these packages included something like an alternative management of
the selected default plugin... maybe gnome dependency should be
modified to take that into account ? or maybe that's complementary ?

>
>> I would maybe understand a recommend here.
>
> A recommend would mean swfdec-mozilla would not be installed by default
> since tasksel does not honor recommends.
>

Why not fix tasksel ? ;-)

Thanks for the feedback.

I understand this is gnome maintainers decision, then... but that's
kinda weird to me as I don't see a need for a flash player inside
iceweazel as something gnome should mess with, as a user... but I'm
not qualified enough to have a say I suppose.

Feel free to close.

Best regards,
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