Bug#758543: mplayer bug ducktape fix

[Stuart Prescott]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 17:31:49 +0200 Steff <steff at artikel-140.nl> wrote:
> The bug is still existing in Jessie/unstable.

jessie and unstable are different releases -- the updated package is not yet in 
jessie (testing) but it is in sid (unstable).
 
> The trick I did was removing and purging mplayer and installing it
> again. Ugly, but it works.

Installing mplayer how? There is no mplayer package in either jessie or sid. 
(And packages from wheezy are not going to work in jessie or sid -- that's 
what this bug is about)

For reference, this is what you will see when the fixed package is available 
(eliding lots of verbose output for clarity):

# sed -i s/jessie/sid/ /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mplayer
The following packages will be upgraded:
 [...] libdvdnav4 [...]
43 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 18.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4985 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

To be explicit, the fix is to ensure that a non-working mplayer package does 
not remain installed on the system. mplayer is not in jessie or sid at all so 
there's no mplayer package to fix to use the updated library. There are plenty 
of alternatives to mplayer in the archive.

cheers
Stuart

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