Bug#446867: decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify
Le mardi 16 octobre 2007 à 19:18 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Package: decibel-audio-player Version: 0.06.3-1 Severity: normal Decibel audio player has a plugin called Desktop Notification which use python-notify. When this plugin is selected, decibel complains about not finding pynotify. Installing python-notify solve the issue. So, decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify or should remove the desktop notification plugin. I don't agree with this. Decibel already recommends python-notify. It shouldn't depend on it, since it doesn't need python-notify to work. python-notify enhances decibel, and thus, it should be a recommends. So you have a working installation, and if you want the plugin, you can install pynotify. Also, aptitude (and I think apt will do it too soon) now installs recommended packages by default, so python-notify will be automatically installed, and you will still be able to remove it if you don't want it. This is disturbing as the message given by decibel does not specify the package needed. I think that the plugins should go into a decibel-audio-player-plugins which should depend on python-notify. This is my opinion. But you can close this bug report, if you want. -- Emmanuel Lesouef DSI | CRBN t: 0231069671 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#446867: decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify
On 10/17/07, Emmanuel Lesouef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le mardi 16 octobre 2007 à 19:18 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort a écrit : Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Package: decibel-audio-player Version: 0.06.3-1 Severity: normal Decibel audio player has a plugin called Desktop Notification which use python-notify. When this plugin is selected, decibel complains about not finding pynotify. Installing python-notify solve the issue. So, decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify or should remove the desktop notification plugin. I don't agree with this. Decibel already recommends python-notify. It shouldn't depend on it, since it doesn't need python-notify to work. python-notify enhances decibel, and thus, it should be a recommends. So you have a working installation, and if you want the plugin, you can install pynotify. Also, aptitude (and I think apt will do it too soon) now installs recommended packages by default, so python-notify will be automatically installed, and you will still be able to remove it if you don't want it. This is disturbing as the message given by decibel does not specify the package needed. I think that the plugins should go into a decibel-audio-player-plugins which should depend on python-notify. This is my opinion. But you can close this bug report, if you want. Hi, I'm the author of this player. The goal here was to not force a user to install tons of packages for plugins he may never use. When a /Python/ package is needed, it's easy to test if it's there and to warn the user when it's not available, but IMHO there's no way to know which /Debian/ package is needed to install it. It could be hard coded, but the package name may change, and it's moreover different across different distributions.
Bug#446867: decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify
Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Package: decibel-audio-player Version: 0.06.3-1 Severity: normal Decibel audio player has a plugin called Desktop Notification which use python-notify. When this plugin is selected, decibel complains about not finding pynotify. Installing python-notify solve the issue. So, decibel-audio-player should depend on python-notify or should remove the desktop notification plugin. I don't agree with this. Decibel already recommends python-notify. It shouldn't depend on it, since it doesn't need python-notify to work. python-notify enhances decibel, and thus, it should be a recommends. So you have a working installation, and if you want the plugin, you can install pynotify. Also, aptitude (and I think apt will do it too soon) now installs recommended packages by default, so python-notify will be automatically installed, and you will still be able to remove it if you don't want it. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
