Bug#816575: libtotem-plparser18: [regression] no longer depends on libquvi after the quvi transition

[Andreas Henriksson]

Hello Paul Wise.

Thanks for your bug report.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:05:31PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: libtotem-plparser18
> Version: 3.10.6-2
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se>, libquvi at packages.debian.org
> 
> The quvi transition has broken playing Youtube videos in totem. This
> appears to be because libtotem-plparser18 no longer depends on libquvi
> but it should depend on libquvi-0.9-0.9.3 as libtotem-plparser18
> depends on libquvi7 in Debian jessie. Looking at the build log it finds
> the library, builds against the headers and but only links 99-totem-pl-
> parser-videosite against the library. In jessie, the libtotem-
> plparser.so.18.1.0 library was linked against the quvi library.

The linking was changed to work around that libquvi-0.9 changed license.
So in the newer version it's not supposed to link directly instead
some kind of middle-layer is used IIRC.

I'll look into what's broken with the new solution.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson