Bug#923494: Please Recommend and dlopen libsdl2 rather than depending on it

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:49 PM Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 08:25:55AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > >                                Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.1.1-2),
> > > libavdevice58 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavfilter7 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavformat58 (=
> > > 7:4.1.1-2), libavresample4 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libavutil56 (= 7:4.1.1-2),
> > libc6
> > > (>= 2.14), libpostproc55 (= 7:4.1.1-2), libswresample3 (= 7:4.1.1-2),
> > > libswscale5 (= 7:4.1.1-2)
> > >  Suggests: ffmpeg-doc
> >
> > You might want to add a Suggests on ffplay, as well.
> >
> 
> Good idea, done.
> 
> The changes are in the 'master' branch of our packaging repository now.
> Unfortunately, we missed the Debian freeze. Not sure if this is worth
> asking for a freeze exception.
> 
> What do you guys think?

Speaking for myself only, all the systems on which this might end up
installed run sid. And the previous Debian stable had this dependency,
so this isn't a regression. I'd suggest not asking for a freeze
exception.