Comment 9 for bug 158335

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:42:16PM -0000, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote:
> lastfmsubmitd was briefly promoted to a Recommends in Debian, but has since been returned to a Suggests. This is due to the fact that it is a daemon. Presumably, the objection is to the overhead on the user's system. This was also explicitly demoted in
> 20091024-1ubuntu1 by Steve Langasek before working its way back into Debian.
>
> Any thoughts on how to proceed? I personally lean towards this being a
> "Won't Fix."
>
> ** Tags added: patch-rejected-debian
>
> ** Changed in: quodlibet-plugins (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>
> --
> Missing dependency on lastfmsubmitd causes plugin to fail
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158335
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> Status in “quodlibet-plugins” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: quodlibet-plugins
>
> The audioscrobbler plugin for Quod Libet depends on the Python bindings for LastFM, but these aren't installed by quodlibet-plugins. In order to get this plugin working, one must also install lastfmsubmitd.
>
> Perhaps it'd be a good idea to pull the lastfm bindings into a separate package that both lastfmsubmitd and quodlibet-plugins depend on?

There are actually currently *two* plugins in Quod Libet
for submitting to Last.fm / using the audioscrobbler
protocol. Only one of them requires the lastfmsubmitd
daemon. I believe upstream is at least considering
deprecating the one that uses the daemon.

cheers,
Christine (the Debian maintainer)