Bug#656850: MPlayer recommends libbluray1 which in turn recommends libbluray-bdj which requires JRE so the default mplayer install brings java "bloat" to the system

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Sun Jan 22 17:13:36 UTC 2012


reassign 656850 libbluray1
stop

On So, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:40:36 (CET), Paul Fertser wrote:

> Package: mplayer
> Version: 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1+svn34540-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Trying to install mplayer on a system with default apt configuration
> results in installing all the recommended packages as well which
> necessarily brings in some headless Java variant as libbluray-bdj
> dependency which is recommended by libbluray1 to the system which
> might be highly undesired and confusing.
>
> Imho it would be nice if mplayer only "suggested" libbluray1.

That won't work. As mplayer is dynamically linked against libbluray1, it
will not even start if libbluray1 is not available.

The only option that I see right now is by demoting libbluray1's
recommends on libbluray-bdj to a suggests.

Note that libbluray-bdj is required for BD menus to work.

Cheers,
Reinhard
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