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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gstreamer: Fixed dependency problem with -meta packages
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On 05/07/2013 11:55 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 5 May 2013 21:50, Carlos Rafael Giani <dv@pseudoterminal.org> wrote:
>> Installing the gstreamer -meta packages was not possible, because the
>> -apps and -glib packages were missing. Allowing for empty -apps/glib
>> packages fixes this.
>  From what I can tell there's only one -apps package
> (gst-plugins-base-apps) and one -glib package (gst-plugins-bad-glib),
> so why not add those extra dependencies in -base and -bad explicitly
> instead of creating empty packages for no reason?
>
> Ross

True, however I wonder if somebody relies on these packages being there.
Is it acceptable to break compatibility here?