Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> 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)?

Sure, because 20080206-1 is 'lower than' 3:20050427 from dpkg's POV.

Yes, epochs are very, very nasty.

>> 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.

which is only possible if the package would be distinguishable by other
means than version, as far as I see it.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4