Bug#459341: libaudio-mpd-perl: Missing dependency

Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org
Sat Jan 5 20:45:30 UTC 2008


gregor herrmann wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
> 
> Actually both libgetopt-euclid-perl and libproc-daemon-perl are
> mentioned in debian/control, at the moment as "Suggests:", because
> they are not really needed for the module but only for the optional
> daemon (mpd-dynamic).
> 
> I don't know the package well enough to be able to say if a change to
> "Recommends" is actually warranted -- Joey, what do you think?

I don't feel that it is, since the daemon is only an example of how to
use the library, and is likely to not be the reason the library was
installed, so installing everything it needs by default is not
warranted.

-- 
see shy jo
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