[Debian-olpc-devel] Bug#511897: Bug#511897: sugar: Package should depend on gstreamer0.10-alsa

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:49:53AM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>The following error occurs on a system that does not have gstreamer-0.10-alsa installed:
>  File "/usr/share/sugar/shell/hardware/hardwaremanager.py", line 56, in __init__
>    self._mixer = gst.element_factory_make('alsamixer')
>gst.ElementNotFoundError: alsamixer

Sugar already indirectly depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good through 
telepathy-stream-engine, libfarsight0.1-3 and 
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good.

Please describe how the sugar package can be installed (using only 
officially released Debian packages) without gstreamer-0.10-alsa.


I agree that sugar should recommend gstreamer-0.10-alsa, as it should 
declare all _direct_ dependencies. But I suspect that even if that file 
is missing, some use of Sugar is possible (rather than "renders the 
package unsuable" as you tagged this bug). Can you elaborate on 
that tagging?

(your tagging means "it is better to remove this package completely from 
Debian than keeping it with this bug open" which I suspect is not right)


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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