[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#825056: Bug#825056: amarok: Systematic crash after this morning qt4/kde5 upgrade

[Maximiliano Curia]

¡Hola Eric!

El 2016-05-25 a las 18:11 +0200, Eric Valette escribió:
> On 25/05/2016 16:17, Maximiliano Curia wrote:
>> ¡Hola Eric!
>>
> Hola Maximiliano,
>
>> The vlc gui is a qt5 application, which is launched as a plugin, both 
>> amarok and juk are qt4 based. It's not possible to load qt4 and qt5 libs 
>> in the same program. Whenever you use vlc (through phonon or directly) 
>> if it finds that the plugins cache is not up to date it tries to update 
>> them. And when it tries to update the gui plugin a qt4 app will crash.
>>
>> If this fixes the issue we'll need to reassign the bug to vlc. 
> Bingo. Thanks a lot for your help. I will not reassign to vlc as it is 
> a deb-multimedia version 3.0 git so not fair for debian.

> BTW, it seems that for vlc 3, the set of expected parameters have changed...

> /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f /usr/lib/vlc/plugins 
> /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen: invalid option -- 'f' 
> Usage: /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen <path>
> Generate the LibVLC plugins cache for the specified plugins directory. 
> tri-yann4:/home/valette# /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen /usr/lib/vlc/plugins

> Strange to the very same vlc version is installed on my other computer 
> and I see no problem there...

Ok, then we need to cc Christian Marillat, he is usually quite responsive.
Christian, could you please update the postinst script in the vlc 3 packages?

Thanks,
Happy hacking,
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