Bug#557266: vlc: ogg/dirac playback does not work

[Andres Mejia]

On Saturday 21 November 2009 15:06:24 Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> reassign 557266 libavutil49
> retitle 557266 Be more robust against broken 3rd party packages
> stop
> 
> Romain Beauxis <toots at rastageeks.org> writes:
> > ii  libavcodec52      5:0.5+svn20091101-0.0  library to encode decode
> > multimedi ii  libavformat52     5:0.5+svn20091101-0.0  ffmpeg file format
> > library ii  libavutil49       4:0.5+svn20090706-2+b1 ffmpeg utility
> > library
> 
> This is not going to work in any case. libavcodec uses many many
> internals of libavutil, so these libraries absolutely do need to be kept
> at the same upstream version under any circumstances!
> 
> Perhaps we can or should add some Breaks field on libavutil49 like that:
> 
> Packages: libavutil49
> Breaks: libavcodec52 (>> ${Source:upstream-version})
> 
> As liabformat depends on libavcodec, I think this should be sufficient.
> 
> Opinions?
> 

Have you seen the latest lintian problems?
http://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#ffmpeg

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Regards,
Andres