Bug#544990: mplayer: Mplayer depends on dummy package libsdl1.2debian

[Hilmar Preusse]

On 04.09.09 Christophe Mutricy (xtophe at chewa.net) wrote:
> Le Fri 04 Sep 09 à 19:05 +0200, Hilmar Preusse a écrit :
> > On 04.09.09 Reimar Döffinger (Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de) wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:19:28PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > > > your package actually depends on the dummy package libsdl1.2debian. Please
> > > > link with one of the other packages provided by the source package:
> > > >[...]
> > > Uh, why? The libsdl1.2debian package is exactly the right one,
> > > since any of the above are ok.
> > > 
> > The package you link against is a dummy package:
> > [...]
> > Linking against it doesn't make any sense. I guess the next rebuild
> > will change the dep anyway. Further discussions regarding this should
> > be addressed to the SDL maintainers.
> 
> 
> We don't link to a package. We depend on it. And we don't depend on
> the dummy one to let the user choose which of the libsdl1.2debian-*
> he wants to use according to the sound system he use.
> 
I'm sorry, I didn't use the right wording: linking against a package
not having any usable data (except changelog etc.) is not possible.
So mplayer depends on a dummy package.

> Furthermore, we don't force on what package we depends. It's all
> comes from the .shlibs file of libsdl1.2-debian. Which, IMHO,
> correctly has libsdl1.2debian in it.
> 
On my system libsdl1.2-debian does not provide a shlibs file:

hille at sid:~ $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/libsdl1.2debian*shlibs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 97 2009-03-12 02:05 /var/lib/dpkg/info/libsdl1.2debian-alsa.shlibs

This file has the following content:

hille at sid:~ $ more /var/lib/dpkg/info/libsdl1.2debian-alsa.shlibs
libSDL-1.2 0 libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1)
udeb: libSDL-1.2 0 libsdl1.2debian-udeb (>= 1.2.10-1)

Not yure, how to interpret this content.

> So I think it's not a bug and an mplayer Uploader should close it. IF
> some people can demonstrate it's a bug, then it's a libsdl bug and not a
> mplayer bug.
> 
I still think it is a bug, but I am not sure in which package.

- mplayer depends on a package not containing any usable data
- that package depends on either:

  * libsdl1.2debian-alsa,
  * libsdl1.2debian-all,
  * libsdl1.2debian-esd,
  * libsdl1.2debian-arts,
  * libsdl1.2debian-oss,
  * libsdl1.2debian-nas or
  * libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

So I guess mplayer should declare the same deps. I have
libsdl1.2debian-alsa on my system, but can't remove the dummy
package.

sid:~# dpkg -l libsdl1.2debian-alsa
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  libsdl1.2debia 1.2.13-4+b1    Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA
sid:~# apt-get --purge remove libsdl1.2debian
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libsdl1.2debian* mplayer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 6,296kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

As said: I'me not sure if libsdl1.2-dev creates the wrong dep line
for mplayer or if this is a bug in mplayer. I suggest to clarify this
with the SDL maintainers.

Many thanks,
  Hilmar
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