Package: sox Version: 14.0.0-4 Severity: important
I recently upgraded to the new version of sox, but found it would no longer play or record audio. Some poking around led me to the realisation that the i/o libraries have been relegated to separate packages libsox-fmt-*, which were not installed on upgrade because they are not dependencies. They are not even suggested or recommended in the main package. As I understand it, or at least as I use it, sox plays and records audio, but it can't do this without any i/o libraries. I guess modularity is good, but shouldn't a package "just work" once it's installed? Users need some way of knowing that these additional packages are required for basic functionality just by looking at the listing for the main package. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (300, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.015 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages sox depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libltdl3 1.5.22-4 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libsamplerate0 0.1.2-5 audio rate conversion library ii libsox0 14.0.0-4 SoX library sox recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
