Bug#838040: hard dependency on telepathy-rakia

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: gnome
Version: 1:3.20+2
Severity: important

The debian/control file[1] has explicit dependencies on packages like
telepathy-rakia and telepathy-gabble

These are connection managers for Telepathy

I'd like to propose that you allow virtual packages, e.g.


  telepathy-rakia | telepathy-cm-sip,
  telepathy-gabble | telepathy-cm-xmpp,
  ...


Then if somebody else wants to replace telepathy-rakia, they can include:

Provides: telepathy-cm-sip

in their debian/control file.

There is a specific example of telepathy-cm-sip in the works, the
telepathy-resiprocate component.  It will soon be built from the
resiprocate package[2]

Regards,

Daniel


1.
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-gnome/desktop/unstable/meta-gnome3/debian/control?revision=50116&view=markup
2. https://packages.qa.debian.org/r/resiprocate.html