Bug#963045: gnome-control-center: Unable to install due to wrong dependency(ies)

[Philippe Chauvat]

Hi Simon,

Thanks a lot for pointing this out... I'll check and let you know. I
really appreciate the quick reply.

Best

Philippe

Le 18/06/2020 à 16:06, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 12:17:19 +0200, Philippe Chauvat wrote:
>>    gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad is trying to be installed but in conflict with other packages...
> ...
>> Préparation du dépaquetage de .../gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad_1%3a1.14.4-dmo7_amd64.deb ...
> This version is from deb-multimedia.org (notice the -dmo). That's
> a third-party package repository which is known to contain various
> packages that are incompatible with what's in Debian, particularly
> testing/unstable. Please don't use it, and replace packages that came
> from dmo with the equivalents from "real Debian".
>
> In particular, dmo puts epochs on the version numbers of its packages,
> which cause those packages to be compared incorrectly with packages in
> Debian - for example this is gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad version 1.14.4,
> but because of the 1: epoch, dpkg will think that it is newer than the
> version 1.16.x in Debian testing/unstable. This is not true and can
> break applications.
>
>     smcv