Bug#812752: phonon: please depend on phonon-backend-gstreamer on hurd

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Maximiliano Curia, on mer. 12 juil. 2017 09:43:38 +0200, wrote:
> It seems to me that libldb is needed for the vlc samba plugin, which is
> optional for vlc, also phonon4qt5-backend-vlc is only the recommended
> backend, but it should be replaceable with phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer or
> phonon4qt5-backend-null at package resolution time if phonon4qt5-backend-vlc
> is uninstallable.

Sure, but buildds don't do that automatically.

> Anyway, I think this issue should be solved by now, but I don't have a hurd
> machine to test this, could you please recheck if this issue is still
> affecting hurd?

It is still a problem:

# apt-get build-dep akonadi
...
 builddeps:akonadi : Depends: kdesignerplugin (>= 5.16.0~) but it is not going to be installed
                     Depends: kio-dev (>= 5.16.0~) but it is not going to be installed
...
# apt-get install kio-dev libkf5kio-dev kio libkf5notifications5
 libkf5notifications5 : Depends: phonon4qt5 but it is not going to be installed
# apt-get install kio-dev libkf5kio-dev kio libkf5notifications5 phonon4qt5
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
...
  phonon-backend-gstreamer-common phonon4qt5 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer

so apt manages to pick up the gstreamer version. But that's not what the
buildd resolver does: it always picks the first alternative, so as to
get deterministic behavior.

For those KDE applications, I do add the dep by hand to get things
built, but that's not how it is to be done.

Samuel