Bug#526007: [FFmpeg] libxxx-unstripped should also Provide libxxx

[Reinhard Tartler]

Yonas Yanfa <yonas.yanfa at gmail.com> writes:

> Honestly, I don't understand all this package dependency stuff.....it's
> reminds me of DLL hell. Many people are having problems with this issue
> and it needs to be fixed:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ffmpeg/+bug/312898

Thanks for telling us how to do our job. We wouldn't have known
otherwise.

> My problem is that "sudo apt-get build-dep vlc" doesn't work:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/356076

This is rather a bug in apt than in ffmpeg. Apt fails to find a solution
for your given request. Try helping apt with this command:

apt-get install libavcodec52

afterwards vlc's build-dependencies should be installable again.

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4