* Jakob Bohm [Sun, 26 Sep 2004 03:37:46 +0200]:
> 3. #248655 is a long standing bug (originally not from me) that
> the libjack maintainer has (unilaterally) decided that any
> user who installs libjack (for any reason) can be presumed to
> consent to the installation of the jackd package, the use of
> certain kernel security facilities to "speed up" Jack if those
> security facilities happen to be present, etc.
surely 248655 is a typo:
Bug#248655: liferea: upgrade destroys feed list
for people reading this benefit:
Bug#248665: libjack depends on jackd
> The bug log for #248655 shows that the libjack maintainer is
> extremely arrogant about the importance of his own package and
> seems unable to wrap his head around the possibility that the
> dependency system may cause libjack to be installed by people
> who never asked for it. Given this kind of stubbornness I
> would recommend that libjack dependencies be avoided like the
> plague. In one of the responses he sent to me on that bug he
> even insisted that having things like KDE/ARTS depending on
> Jack is a "misuse" of the high and mighty Jack.
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