#584894 downgrade dependency on libbrasero to a Recommends

Package:
gthumb
Source:
gthumb
Description:
image viewer and browser
Submitter:
Bastian Blank
Date:
2010-08-05 16:36:40 UTC
Severity:
important
#584894#5
Date:
2010-06-07 12:44:35 UTC
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gthumb depends (at least indirect) against genisoimage and dvd+rw-tools.
Writing cds and dvds is not remotely the core usage of a image browsing
tool.

Bastian
#584894#10
Date:
2010-07-20 07:23:20 UTC
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tags 584894 confirmed
retitle 584894 downgrade dependency on libbrasero to a Recommends
thanks

Hello,

I agree, and the dependency on libbrasero should indeed be demoted to a
Recommends.
However, gThumb is not safe when compiled with librasero support and run
without it. In fact, it's missing the library:

$ gthumb
gthumb: error while loading shared libraries: libbrasero-burn.so.0: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
$

I'll forward this upstream, to see if they could use dlopen() for the
image-CD-burning code.


Kindly,
David
#584894#19
Date:
2010-07-20 07:44:26 UTC
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I would say that the dependency of libbrasero* to this tools is the main
bug.

Bad idea. dlopen lacks support for versioned symbols and many more.

Bastian