Package: pulseaudio-utils
Version: 1.1-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
These utilities absolutely require a PA server, either locally
installed or, less often, via the network (usually meaning avahi). So
shouldn't that "Suggests: avahi-daemon" dependency be at least
"Suggests: avahi-daemon, pulseaudio"?
Given that the average desktop PC won't have a server to connect to,
I'm tempted to argue for "Recommends: pulseaudio | avahi-daemon", but
that's not what's in my patch.
Yes, the connection between pulseaudio-utils and pulseaudio is
obvious from the packagename and description, but it would still be
nice to have it reflected in the dependencies. Compare the way
alsa-utils "Recommends: alsa-base".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-27
ii libcap2 1:2.22-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2
ii libpulse0 1.1-3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2
ii libsndfile1 1.0.25-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.4.4-4
ii libxcb1 1.8-2
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.0-4
pulseaudio-utils recommends no packages.
Versions of packages pulseaudio-utils suggests:
pn avahi-daemon <none>
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ru pulseaudio-1.1.pristine/debian/control pulseaudio-1.1/debian/control
--- pulseaudio-1.1.pristine/debian/control 2012-02-19 12:55:05.000000000 +0000
+++ pulseaudio-1.1/debian/control 2012-03-09 13:23:25.299715538 +0000
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
Package: pulseaudio-utils
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
-Suggests: avahi-daemon
+Suggests: avahi-daemon, pulseaudio
Description: Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and
WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with
