audacity manual dependency

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 14:51:45 -0500, Mike Williams wrote:

> I had audacity and the audacity manual installed.  When I found that
> the build of audacity I had would not handle mp3 files I attempted to
> remove audacity because install of audacity-freeworld which includes
> mp3 support failed due to a confilict with the existing audacity
> package.
> 
> Yum informed me that it was going remove audacity and audacity-manual.

That's because the audacity-manual package wants /usr/bin/audacity.
 
> Removing:
>  audacity                          i686                   2.0.2-2.fc16
>                      @updates                    14 M
> Removing for dependencies:
>  audacity-manual                   i686                   2.0.2-2.fc16
>                      @updates                    18 M
> 
> rpm -q --filesbypkg audacity-manual gave a long list of files in
> /usr/share/audacity
> 
> some html files, images, etc.   It does not seem right that the manual
> has to be removed to remove audacity.

That's true, if the manual can be displayed/read without running Audacity.
The dependency on /usr/bin/audacity seems like overhead, but it could be
that the Fedora packagers disagree.

> Seems like a bug to me.  Not sure where to report it.  Is it just in
> the fedora packaging or upstream?

You can remove both packages, then install audacity-freeworld and also
audacity-manual again.

There is no other way to replace Fedora's "audacity" with RPM Fusion's
"audacity-freeworld" other than by removing and reinstalling. RPM Fusion
doesn't like to do that automatically (via RPM Obsoletes) as doing that
for add-on repositories is frowned upon.
 
> I just copied audacity-manual/* to audacity-manual-wtf but would like
> to report this so it can be fixed.
> 
> Will do some more digging later, just thought I'd ask to see if anyone
> knows where a bug report should be filed.  I looked on
> http://bugzilla.audacityteam.org and did not find anything when
> searching for either dependency or manual.

That would have been wrong. Packaging issues are unrelated to upstream here.
Just for the future:
  http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/audacity -> a convenient link
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com -> Fedora bug tracker
  http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org -> RPM Fusion bug tracker

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