[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 1255631] Re: PlayOnLinux requires curl even though it isn't a dependancy

[Josh Black]

gollo (sean-gollschewsky)
"Josh's comment is unhelpful and IMHO against the entire ethos of Ubuntu."

It is not something that we packages, and to be honest, I was under the
impression that it was from our site. I apologize for that.

mulx - yes, I see that now. I never install from repos, so this is not
something that I had seen. To be honest, I did not know that curl was
not a standard lib in Ubuntu and its flavours.

Ads20000
"As I said before, people don't like having to do things manually, it's why they go back to Windows. If we can make things more automated and easy then people are more likely to stay. Stop pushing people away."

Dude, calm down. You really are making the argument that installing curl
from a point-and-click interface is going to immediately push them to
ANY OS in general? I am not pushing people away. I made a mistake. So
chill out.

As for it going against the "ethos of Ubuntu", this particular incident
was from the packager not including the dependencies that are already in
the vanilla POL debs from our repo. Why? I have no clue. It seems silly
to me that dependencies for things in our builds we be deemed
unnecessary in the minds of Ubuntu packagers. I have been getting emails
about this issue for months. Actually, almost a year. And the packages
have not fixed the dependency issue, even though it is almost a year old
now.

The Ubuntu packagers need to fix this bug, as it is apparent what it is needed:
curl
p7zip-full

Ads20000 - In my opinion, the only people pushing anyone away are the
people pushing debs with broken/missing dependencies to the Ubuntu main
repo. This should be a very simple issue to fix for them, but it is the
packagers issue.

So, now that we have all of that settled..... is anyone going to
repackage it for Ubuntu's repos? haha. I mean, that is the whole reason
for this thread, and this should literally be a 10 minute fix, if that.
Let's get it fixed, and for good, and move on.

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Title:
  PlayOnLinux requires curl even though it isn't a dependancy

Status in “playonlinux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When I try to open PlayOnLinux from Terminal with the command
  `playonlinux` or from the Application Finder (Xubuntu) I get the
  following message:

  
  `PlayOnLinux cannot find curl (from cURL)

  You need to install it to continue`

  
  If it needs to have curl to be run, surely it should be a dependancy?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: playonlinux 4.2.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Nov 27 18:43:36 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: playonlinux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-19 (39 days ago)

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