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wesnoth package

wesnoth-all metapackage should depend on wesnoth-music

Bug #223363 reported by Evan Huus
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wesnoth (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
wesnoth (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: wesnoth-all

8.04, release.

Wesnoth-all only recommends wesnoth-music, but it should depend. Installing Wesnoth from add/remove leaves you with no sound, which is annoying. Normal users won't have a clue why this is, when sound works everywhere else.

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Dara Adib (daradib) wrote :

I think this is more of an issue that should be brought up with Debian, but let's see what everyone else says.

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Thanks for your report. I've forwarded it to Debian.

Changed in wesnoth:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda) wrote :

Why should it depend? There is no reason for that. The music is no absolute requirement, and Recommends are pulled in automatically by the package tools unless the system is explicitly configured differently.

There was a user request to not have it as absolute requirement because the size of the music is pretty big and after a while it tends to get boring for some so they would turn it off and play some other tunes. Please see the according changelog entry for it. It's not possible to please everyone, and Recommends instead of only Suggests is the middle path to having it pulled in automatically for most but still give the users the chance to remove it if they don't like it.

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote : Re: [Bug 223363] Re: wesnoth-all metapackage should depend on wesnoth-music

Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> Why should it depend? There is no reason for that. The music is no
> absolute requirement, and Recommends are pulled in automatically by the
> package tools unless the system is explicitly configured differently.

Not for gnome-app-install, https://launchpad.net/bugs/75026. Let's see if that
bug is fixed in the short term, and if not let's merge the Ubuntu package until
it's fixed.

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Changed in wesnoth:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Closing as won't fix, but recommended packages are now installed by default in Intrepid, so wesnoth-music will be installed automatically when you install wesnoth-all (see bug 75026)

Changed in wesnoth:
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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Aristotelis Mikropoulos (amikrop) wrote :

I believe, the package "wesnoth" should be renamed to "wesnoth-core" and the package "wesnoth-all" should be renamed to "wesnoth".

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