Revisiting an old wishlist bug,
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:34:49PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Tim Retout wrote:
> > Not everyone uses VoiceTronix hardware; I have been told that the vpb
> > channel
> > is still unstable, and would prefer not to install libvpb.
> >
> > The attached patch sets some dh_shlibdeps options, to move the dependencies
> > of this one channel into 'Suggests'. Splitting it out into a separate
> > package
> > seemed like overkill (c.f. #459244). It would be possible to bring it back
> > into 'Depends' or 'Recommends' when the module is stable.
> >
> > The same method could be used to move more non-core asterisk dependencies
> > into
> > 'Recommends'. These would still be installed by default, but could be
> > removed by the administrator.
> There is no way we're going to do that; I believe it is the wrong way
> and my gut tells me that it may also be a policy violation, but I
> haven't checked.
>
> Splitting chan_vpb to a different package is something we can discuss
> though. We've done this before for chan_h323, it's only fair to consider
> it for chan_vpb.
>
> Besides the obvious "bloat" of having libvpb installed, do you have any
> other issues with it?
One minor issue: libvpb has a high-priority debconf question, and most
people don't really care about it. I suppose most of the people who
install libvpb0 installed it as it is a dependency of Asterisk and don't
really need it as a high-priority debconf question.
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