Neil, On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 08:45:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > I've prepared an NMU for libdv (versioned as 1.0.0-2.1). > > With a simple pbuilder check, I believe that installing gnome when this > modified package is already installed (with recommends on) will result > in alsa-base being selected and not oss-compat.
Why should libdv pull in alsa-base when it only supports OSS? It's legacy code, so most likely upstream will never support any other sound system. We could of course just demote the Recommends to a Suggests, meaning that most libdv users won't be able to record sound by default. Regards, Daniel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org