Bug#265983: libarts1: Do not depend on the jack packages they bring in too much crap

[Adeodato Simó <asp16@alu.ua.es>]

* Jakob Bohm [Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:37:46 +0200]:

> 3. #248655 is a long standing bug (originally not from me) that
>   the libjack maintainer has (unilaterally) decided that any
>   user who installs libjack (for any reason) can be presumed to
>   consent to the installation of the jackd package, the use of
>   certain kernel security facilities to "speed up" Jack if those
>   security facilities happen to be present, etc.

  surely 248655 is a typo:

    Bug#248655: liferea: upgrade destroys feed list

  for people reading this benefit:

    Bug#248665: libjack depends on jackd 

>     The bug log for #248655 shows that the libjack maintainer is
>   extremely arrogant about the importance of his own package and
>   seems unable to wrap his head around the possibility that the
>   dependency system may cause libjack to be installed by people
>   who never asked for it.  Given this kind of stubbornness I
>   would recommend that libjack dependencies be avoided like the
>   plague.  In one of the responses he sent to me on that bug he
>   even insisted that having things like KDE/ARTS depending on
>   Jack is a "misuse" of the high and mighty Jack.



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