[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#543272: audacious: incorrectly depends on dbus-x11

[Joris van Rantwijk]

The policy manual says: "The Depends field should be used if the  
depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide  
a significant amount of functionality."

If I start audacious without D-Bus, I do not see errors but I do see  
a music player that provides a satisfactory amount of functionality.

I fruitlessly grepped the audacious source for "dbus-launch", which  
is the only feature provided by the package dbus-x11. So even if the  
dependency on dbus would be correct, the dependency on dbus-x11  
remains questionable.

Example from another package: xpdf requires lpr to print documents,  
yet it does not depend on lprng or cups or whatever. This is a good  
thing because there is a subset of xpdf's full functionality which is  
useful to me and does not require lpr.

I'll rest my case. If I failed to convince you, I will just go  
install dbus-x11 and learn to live with it. ;)