Bug#680822: aptitude install libphonon-dev phonon-backend-gstreamer fails

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp>]

Hi,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:13:22 +0200
Sune Vuorela <sune@debian.org> wrote:
> please cancel it. 

 Okay, canceled. Thanks.


> The dependency on phonon *is* correct. Either you want phonon-backend-null 
> *or* a working phonon. Phonon is the package to depend on to get a working 
> phonon.
>
> if you want a working phonon, you must depend on phonon.

 Hmm, just a question. phonon package contains no files 

$ dpkg -L phonon
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/phonon
/usr/share/doc/phonon/copyright
/usr/share/doc/phonon/changelog.Debian.gz

 and just has a dependency for some packages.

$ dpkg -s phonon
Package: phonon
(snip)
Version: 4:4.6.0.0-2
Depends: libphonon4 (>= 4:4.6.0.0-2), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, phonon-backend-vlc | phonon-backend

 Well, if above dependency would be filled, it seems that specify
 phonon-backend will be appropriate option and it is.

 Why we need to specify phonon as Depends:?


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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
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