#663221 quassel: please remove the dependency to phonon. it should be a suggested package, not an obligatory one!

Package:
quassel
Source:
quassel
Description:
distributed IRC client - monolithic core+client
Submitter:
"a.l.e"
Date:
2015-09-17 13:03:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#663221#5
Date:
2012-03-09 15:14:17 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

I don't see why an IRC software should depend on a multimedia package...

The result is that I uninstalled the quassel package...

Compiling from source, without phonon installed, worked perfectly, but i would prefer to have a binary package for it...

Have a nice day
a.l.e
#663221#10
Date:
2012-06-03 06:11:10 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

What's the problem with using phonon?

Thx,

Tom
#663221#15
Date:
2015-03-04 13:36:33 UTC
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To:
I am not sure why the phonon would be a problem despite for the sake of
it.  There have been no activity on this bug for three years, and no
reply from original author.  I guess this bug should just be closed.

Antoine
#663221#20
Date:
2015-03-04 15:15:02 UTC
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the problem is that on my computer no other software uses phonon and i
don't want to install (and keep on updating) libraries that are useless
for me in this context. most of all if they are pulling in many further
dependencies.

i have not checked if the problem still persists. but for somebody who
is into packaging, it should not be hard to test.

all i know, is that at least one one of my machines i probably still
have a self compiled version of quassel because of this.
#663221#25
Date:
2015-09-17 12:59:34 UTC
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The reason why it's there is to support audio notifications.  Upstream
recommends its inclusion.  Because (as you note) this feature has to be
compiled in/out we would have to either drop it for everyone or build two
versions of the the package, one with and one without phonon.

I don't think either of those would be good for most users, so I don't see how
we can support this.

Scott K