Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

Fabian Greffrath greffrath at leat.rub.de
Mon Jul 14 15:08:16 UTC 2008


Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> This means that the other binaries produced by the ffmpeg-debian package
> are affected by this conflict as well and will be tried to removed on
> upgrades, AFAIUI.

Even if we only conflict against packages (>= 3:20050427)?

> Moreover if we find some way to break the packages from
> http://debian-multimedia.org, marillat some other way to work around
> that. I don't think we should engage into that game in the first place.

My idea was not supposed to break packages from Marillat at all. It 
was only supposed to break mixed environments in favour of the Debian 
packages.

> The conflicts on the lib*cvs package was another game, because there we
> don't conflict against our own packages. Eventually we will rename our
> packages to 'libavcodec-stripped-51', which would reenable us do the
> trick you propose here.

Although I don't like the idea to rename our packages because of 
breakage that's been introduced by packages from unofficial 
repositories, well, fine by me...

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