Hi, The reason for not depending on the plugin packages was that some plugins provide support for the same codec but using different libraries. So for example if users want to use rav1e for AV1 encoding, they should not need to install the aomenc plugin. Or maybe I'm thinking too technical and people don't really care about what is installed...
I'm considering changing the packages that were provided as builtin codecs in the past as "Depends" to libheif1. This will affect the packages currently marked as "Recommends". Would that be acceptable? Please note that together with the actual libheif plugin packages, additional packages will be pulled in as dependencies. Cheers, Joachim On 07.07.23 16:29, marillat wrote:
On Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:46:39 +0200 Christian Marillat <maril...@debian.org> wrote:Package: libheif1 Version: 1.16.2-1+b1 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, For people like me with Install-Recommends set to false, no plugins are installed and I spend some time to understand why program like didikam, thunar or imagemagick was unable to display any .heic image files.If you don't want to move back plugins packages to libheif1. Here is and idea. 1) You must improve the long description for plugin packages. I read for libheif-plugin-libde265 "This package contains the libde265 plugin" (same for other packages). What is supposed to do this plugin (and others) ? 2) libheif1 must Depends on plugins that are able to open video and image files so that nothing is broken in others packages (imagemagick, thunar, etc) Christian
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