Bug#469130: gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly: needs to Provides in addition to Conflicts with gst-plugins-bad

[Loïc Minier]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Versioned depends is precisely what breaks

 No, you're confusing two things.

>                                             because the content of
> -bad was split between good and ugly, we no longer have a safe way to
> figure out which package provides which codec.

 That's correct.  It would be nice to have such a mapping; in fact we
 have one, but not injecting package dependencies.

> Even then, this reorganization forces maintainers of other packages to
> version THEIR dependencies, to either get what they need from bad <<
> version, or good >= version or bad >= version.

 Not necessarily, no; we could as well have the new packages missing
 functionality depending on the new packages providing them.  Could you
 please list the specific plugins you miss?

>                                                However, there is not
> way to declare that a package will depend on both good and ugly,
> instead of just bad.

 Tell me what combinations are ok, and I'll write the depends you need.

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Loïc Minier