The libmtp dependency is now required at launch

Description:

The rhythmbox package references the libmtp dependency in makedepends and optdepends instead of depends, which prevents Rhythmbox from starting. This behavior seems to have been introduced by version 3.4.8 since 3.4.7 is not affected.

Additional info:

• package version(s): 3.4.8-1
• config and/or log files: not applicable
• link to upstream bug report, if any: none found (although I guess someone should create one since it looks like a breaking change in a patch release)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Rhythmbox: pacman -S rhythmbox
2. Start Rhythmbox: rhythmbox
3. Rhythmbox fails to open and display the following error message:

rhythmbox: error while loading shared libraries: libmtp.so.9: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

4. Install libmtp: pacman -S --asdeps libmtp
5. Start Rhythmbox: rhythmbox
6. It works.

Downgrading the rhythmbox package to 3.4.7-3 instead of installing libmtp also works.

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/rhythmbox-3.4.7-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

added priority3-normal severity4-low statusunconfirmed labels

assigned to @freswa, @toolybird, and @gromit

Thanks for reporting. As is, it's definitely a packaging bug.. but it could be argued that upstream should not have made it a hard dep. I didn't look too deeply but this commit might be responsible.

$ namcap /var/cache/pacman/pkg/rhythmbox-3.4.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst | grep "library.*uninstalled.*core"
rhythmbox W: Referenced library 'libmtp.so.9' is an uninstalled dependency (needed in files ['usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.10.0.0', 'usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/mtpdevice/libmtpdevice.so'])

added scoperegression statusconfirmed labels and removed statusunconfirmed label

assigned to @heftig and unassigned @freswa, @toolybird, and @gromit

closed with commit c853f51e