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Bug#740451: marked as done ([libqtmultimediakit1] libqtmultimediakit1 has a hard dependency on pulse audio)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #740451,
regarding [libqtmultimediakit1] libqtmultimediakit1 has a hard dependency on pulse audio
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Package: libqtmultimediakit1
Version: 1.2.0-3+b1
Severity: normal

After many wasted hours trying to understand how to get ppsspp's Qt
interface to use ALSA, I ironically find it does a very poor job
(whose fault that is I dont know...), but I must report here on my
related findings regardless.

The way libqtmultimediakit1 is built from qtmobility results in a hard
dependency with pulse audio, which is presumably unacceptable as pulse
should not be a requirement to use the very important Qt framework (I
run a pure ALSA system after fleeing the broken pulse as a n00b long
ago). Upstream is flagging this as a packaging issue -
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-29742 - which feels
dubious, but thats why I'm reporting here.

In the qtmobility source, because there is no special platform config
(features/platformconfig) for our environment, when the 'configure'
script is ran it determines what features to include based on what it
can compile at the time (see line 601 onwards). I have the pulse audio
headers installed as other packages depend on them (but I don't use
pulse, and this is fine as I don't expect the presence of these
headers to break unrelated stuff).

When pulse is detected, the audio plugin 'libqtmedia_pulse.so' is
compiled, BUT ALSA SUPPORT ISNT. See 'multimedia/audio/audio.pri' at
the bottom, it literally looks for pulse audio and only if it isn't
enabled, enables ALSA!

The end result is a user with a pure ALSA system running a program
that uses libqtmultimediakit1 and getting a permanent hang when audio
is first used, as libqtmedia_pulse.so cannot cope with no running
pulse audio server  (see previously-mentioned
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-29742 - I don't see why
its acceptable to do this either...).

Please can the pulse audio dependency be clearly marked and
libqtmultimediakit1 be built in an ALSA-supported form separately?

Thanks


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Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 3.12-1-amd64

Debian Release: jessie/sid
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- --- Package information. ---
Depends                                (Version) | Installed
================================================-+-=============
libasound2                           (>= 1.0.16) |
libc6                                  (>= 2.14) |
libgcc1                             (>= 1:4.1.1) |
libgl1-mesa-glx                                  |
 OR libgl1                                       |
libglib2.0-0                         (>= 2.31.8) |
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0     (>= 0.10.29) |
libgstreamer0.10-0                  (>= 0.10.31) |
libpulse0                            (>= 0.99.1) |
libqt4-network                      (>= 4:4.8.1) |
libqt4-opengl                       (>= 4:4.8.1) |
libqtcore4                          (>= 4:4.8.1) |
libqtgui4                           (>= 4:4.8.1) |
libstdc++6                            (>= 4.1.1) |
libx11-6                                         |
libxext6                                         |
libxml2                              (>= 2.6.27) |
libxv1                                           |


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests             (Version) | Installed
==============================-+-===========
qtmobility-l10n                | 1.2.0-3

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Dear submitter,

as the package qtmobility has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/802642

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