Bug#482213: libavg: FTBFS: ld: cannot find -ldts

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> On the other hand, I'm not exactly sure why ffmpeg-config is in the
>> libavutil-dev package at all. It could as well go directly to
>> libavcodec-dev, so we wouldn't have to force libavutil-dev to depend on
>> libavcodec-dev. Package would then need to depend on libavcodec-dev in
>> order to use it, which might or might not be a good idea.
>
> If we move ffmpeg-config from libavutil-dev to libavcodec-dev (what we
> should definitely do IMHO), then we need libavutil-dev to depend on
> libavcodec-dev anyway to satisfy packages that expect ffmpeg-config in
> libavutil-dev.

Okay, then let's do that. Can you prepare that in svn please, then?

>> In any case, I think ffmpeg-config should go away. Upstream is providing
>> pkg-config as mechanism for that. I know that obviously quite some
>> packages in debian use ffmpeg-config for that, but we should fix that
>> IMO.
>
> Definitely, since ffmpeg-config is an unnecessary diversion from
> upstream. Should we keep it until Lenny, though?

I'm not sure. I think we should determine the list of packages using
ffmpeg-config and file wishlist bugs against them right now, preferably
with patches. If we manage to get these patches in before lenny, we can
drop it before release!

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4