empathy lacks dependency on telepathy-gnome

[Baptiste Mille-Mathias]

Binary package hint: empathy

When installing empathy, only the following package are installed:
empathy libempathy-gtk11 libempathy11 libmissioncontrol-client0 libmissioncontrol-server1 libtelepathy-glib0 libtelepathy2 telepathy-mission-control
and telepathy-gabble telepathy-salut are only in recommanded.

it is impossible to do something with empathy; no connection manager; no account creation.

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Baptiste Mille-Mathias wrote on 2008-03-25:
> telepathy-gabble telepathy-salut are only in recommended.
> it is impossible to do something with empathy; no connection manager; no account creation.

You are right, but you patch is incorrect - empathy souldn't depend on one particular telepathy-connection-manager implementation, like telepathy-gabble, but should depend on virtual package telepathy-connection-manager instead (because not all empathy users wanna use jabber/xmpp, for example some use just telepathy-sofiasip, telepathy-haze or telepathy-butterfly). If we think, that most empaty users wanna have telepathy-gabble connection manager then we should depend on "telepathy-gabble | telepathy-connection-manager".

According to telepathy-gnome in Recommends I think it's not good decision, as telepathy-gnome metapackage depends on empathy package and telepathy-core metapackage. Instead of recommending telepathy-gnome we should recommend or suggest telepathy-core metapackage.

I've fixed Depends and Recommends in improved patch I'm attaching to this bugreport.

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

empathy now recommends telepathy-gabble, telepathy-salut, telepathy-butterfly and telepathy-haze.

Recommends should now be installed by default on intrepid