well, my rationale is easy enough. I'm entirely agreed that your definition sounds logical to you, but as long as the average user cannot run "ohphone -v" and then receive an informational message about missing plugins, I do not want to face the new bugs telling "video does not work". I'll see what upstream tells about this, yet I think we'll live with these few 132kB installed (size of v4l.so). Having a virtual
Okey, 132kB is not large. My rationale is simple also. This is disconform debian policy. Though, it is not great trouble. :-)
And there are four different video plugin and two audio. With both audio plugin, oss or alsa, ohphone will work in debian linux. The only difference if user is advanced enough to configure alsa, for instance with dmix. But for such users is not problem change oss plugin to alsa. :-) Thus audio plugin may be installed automaticaly. Though alsa plugin is preferred.
What about video plugin? Is this universal video plugin to work with all webcam? IMHO users must be faced to choose video plugin for his webcam. Also unadvanced users often turn to install suggested packages by default. Thus put video plugn in suggested is right.
Video plugin in "depends" looked like a maintainer mistake but don't discomfort me. I don't insist. Keep my advise as an opinion from one of the users.
Also I'll be satisfied if in ohphone-basic will be only audio with video in suggested. ohphone-basic is version for minimalist, isn't it? :-)
Good luck.
-- Olleg Samoylov
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