add epoch '3:' to ffmpeg-debian, was: Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Thu Jul 17 07:19:18 UTC 2008


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

> Fabian Greffrath schrieb:
>> No, to be honest, I just saw that you have to add these epochs over
>> and over again for the Ubuntu package and I believed you would like to
>> get rid of this. ;)
>
> On the other hand, adding an epoch in Debian will only save you from
> changing it in the Ubuntu changelog. You would still have to add them to
> all of the Replaces and Conflicts lines in debian/control anyway...

Why that? The conflicts are all versioned and only bound to the current
package version. Having them like this in debian wouldn't hurt AFAIS.

the only difference is really the faad dependency.

for reference, the current ubuntu diff can be seen here:
http://patches.ubuntu.com/f/ffmpeg-debian/ffmpeg-debian_3:0.svn20080206-11ubuntu1.patch

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