Bug#1040520: libheif1: Please don't split plugins in separate packages
On 07 juil. 2023 11:29, Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 11:10:51AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> From Debian policy 7.2 :
>>
>> ,----
>> | "Recommends"
>> | This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency.
>> |
>> | The "Recommends" field should list packages that would be found
>> | together with this one in all but unusual installations.
>> `----
>>
>> For now libheif1 without the right plugin is unusable.
>
> That depends on on how you want to use libheif1. For instance, I use
> geeqie. It happens to link libheif1. If I were to remove the files of
> libheif1, geeqie would miss a library and fail to start. Given the
> presence of libheif1, I can run geeqie. Using geeqie works given that I
> don't interact with the relevant file format. Quite obviously,
> "unusable" does not accurately describe it.
Another broken package, geeqie doesn't work :
,----
| $ geeqie 20230707_091502.heic
| warning: heif reader error: Unsupported feature: Unsupported codec
`----
Christian
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