[Bug 432701] Re: amarok missing dependency

[RobM]

Just my $0.02, but I have been unable to use Amarok since my last
upgrade (months ago now) because of this. I eventually found a post
somewhere suggesting I install libxine1-ffmpeg, and was about to file a
(duplicate) bug to inform the community of this.

For what it's worth, I concur with Terence - if the package is in
'main', then its generally considered by the distro to be fit for
general consumption. The strictest enforcers of the mantra "main == free
as in liberty and beer" to my knowledge is Debian as documented at [1]_
(c.f. their section on copyright and how it affects eligibility for
inclusion in main). In Debian libxine1-ffmpeg is in main [2]; when you
view the package details on their site a link at the top-left shows it
is built from the source package "xine-lib", if you follow this through
and attempt to download you can see that the source if kept under a
folder called "main" on the repo server. (If there's a clearer way to
show it's in main, I'd be interested to hear it!).

Failing that, is there a way to make this more discoverable? Perhaps a
dpkg-configure wizard when you install? Even just having the amarok
package "Suggest" or "Recommend" libxine1-ffmpeg would have helped me
discover the cause of this apparent bug (speaking purely as an ignorant
user for a moment: when I install a music player I expect it to be able
to play MP3!).

.. [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html
.. [2] http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libxine1-ffmpeg

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amarok missing dependency
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