[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#528405: new pulseaudio with uncomplete dependencies

[Steve Langasek]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:11:20PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> + Adeodato Simó (Sun, 17 May 2009 11:21:06 +0200):

> > The problem is a bug in the packaging of pulseaudio itself, which
> > doesn't specify in its Depends field that it needs the latest version of
> > libpulse0 to run, despite linking to libpulsecommon-0.9.15.so. According
> > to the Debian Policy, this is a serious bug.

> (Assuming, of course, that libpulsecommon-0.9.15.so is some kind of
> private library that only packages from the same source depend on/link
> against, and that for this reason is okay to ship in libpulse0 and bump
> its SONAME without a package rename.)

It's a new library; I guess (hope) that it's a new API and therefore there
are no backwards-incompatibilities that would require a package name change.

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