FS#40356 - [xnoise] missing dependency gst-plugins-base

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Niels Lambrigts (Niels Lambrigts) - Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 13:07 GMT
Last edited by Felix Yan (felixonmars) - Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 16:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

xnoise does not work without gst-plugins-base, but this package is not a dependency.

Steps to reproduce:

Install xnoise without gst-plugins-base.
Attempting to play a song will result in the error "GstError parsed: Could not initialize supporting library."

Suggestion:

Make gst-plugins-base a dependency of xnoise.
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Closed by  Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 16:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  0.2.21-2
Comment by Felix Yan (felixonmars) - Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 13:51 GMT
You can have gst-libav installed instead of gst-plugins-base. All possible codecs are already listed in optdepends.
Comment by Niels Lambrigts (Niels Lambrigts) - Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 14:58 GMT
Good point. Wouldn't it be better though to make it clear the user needs to install either of those? They are currently only described as "Base media codecs" and "Extra media codecs". A message during installation (e.g. "You will need to install either gst-plugins-base or gst-libav to use xnoise.") would make it more clear, in my opinion.
Comment by Felix Yan (felixonmars) - Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 16:38 GMT
OK. Added in 0.2.21-2.

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