Re: Change youtube-dl to Suggests: in gnome-mpv?
+debian-multimedia@ which also maintains mpv.
Hi Martin,
Upon further investigation it seems that gnome-mpv wants youtube-dl via mpv's "--ytdl" option which is enabled by default and is required for usages like `mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ` to work. (And adding --no-ytdl will make it fail with an error message like "Failed to recognize file format."
Going by the Debian meaning of Recommends, I would say that it is correct that both mpv and gnome-mpv Recommends: youtube-dl and that it would be less-than-ideal to change it to Suggests.
IMO, you should ask live-build and/or germinate to add the ability to exclude specific Recommends on a per-package basis, rather than asking Debian packages to redo dependency declarations that already conform properly to Debian Policy definitions.
According to the Ubuntu wiki page for Germinate, it already supports some idea of blacklists. Perhaps it's sufficient to add youtube-dl to this blacklist?
X
Martin Wimpress:
> Hi Ximin,
>
> Tha ks for getting back to me. There is no facility in live-build or
> germinate to exclude Recommends on a per package basis, which is why I am
> requesting this change.
>
> Regards, Martin.
>
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, 07:03 Ximin Luo, <infinity0@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Martin Wimpress:
>>> Hi Ximin,
>>>
>>> I'm Martin Wimpress; I'm the project lead for Ubuntu MATE.
>>>
>>> The Ubuntu MATE team would like to replace VLC with GNOME MPV. However,
>>> I've noticed that gnome-mpv Recommends: youtube-dl which in turn has a
>>> Depends: on phantomjs which in turn has Depends: on a collection of
>> libqt5
>>> libraries. Sadly, that is not ideal for including in the ISO images of a
>>> GTK based desktop as it grows the image considerably.
>>>
>>> Would you consider dropping youtube-dl to a Suggests: for gnome-mpv?
>>> Although I work on Ubuntu MATE I do the majority of my packaging work in
>>> Debian and sync that directly to Ubuntu. This is why I am asking you if
>>> you'd be prepared to make that change in Debian so Ubuntu can continue
>> sync
>>> gnome-mpv directly. What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Martin, this should be unproblematic but I'm wondering why it's
>> necessary at all? A Recommends: relationship should not prevent you from
>> excluding it anywhere including an ISO image.
>>
>> X
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