Bug 255683

Summary:	dragonplayer should not depend on xine directly
Product:	[Applications] dragonplayer	Reporter:	Marat Radchenko <marat>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.0.x
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Marat Radchenko 2010-10-30 18:54:53 UTC

Version:           2.0.x (using KDE 4.4.5) 
OS:                Linux

Since dragonplayer uses phonon for playing media and phonon has multiple backends, it makes no sense to depend on xine directly. On my system i use gstreamer phonon and dragonplayer is the only package that uselessly depends on xine.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Marat Radchenko 2010-10-30 18:55:47 UTC

Same downstream bug from Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491622

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2010-10-30 20:23:53 UTC

The claim in the upstream bug report ("Dragonplayer needs xine library") is not true. DragonPlayer has an optional dependency on xine, it can be built without xine installed. It just makes use of it for DVD playback improvements, which Phonon alone does not support fully.

If you cannot compile yourself, but still need a package without xine dependencies, ask your distribution to provide one.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2010-10-30 20:32:59 UTC

The commit that made xine optional is dated 2008-08-20, so the downstream (not upstream :) Debian bug report is just old.

WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?revision=849723&view=revision

Comment 4 Marat Radchenko 2010-10-30 21:20:48 UTC

Cool. Looks like distros missed this change (both Debian and Gentoo still have hard dep to xine-lib)