Re: Bug#528405: new pulseaudio with uncomplete dependencies

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

+ Adeodato Simó (Sun, 17 May 2009 11:21:06 +0200):

> The problem is a bug in the packaging of pulseaudio itself, which
> doesn't specify in its Depends field that it needs the latest version of
> libpulse0 to run, despite linking to libpulsecommon-0.9.15.so. According
> to the Debian Policy, this is a serious bug.

(Assuming, of course, that libpulsecommon-0.9.15.so is some kind of
private library that only packages from the same source depend on/link
against, and that for this reason is okay to ship in libpulse0 and bump
its SONAME without a package rename.)

Cheers,

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