Bug#563483: closed by Christophe Mutricy <xtophe at videolan.org> (Bug#563483: fixed in vlc 1.0.4-2)

Fri Jan 8 11:33:32 UTC 2010

On Fr, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:50:33 (CET), Luk Claes wrote:

>> That bugreport has very long discussion threads, and after skimming
>> them, I didn't understand how that bug relates to this situation.
>> 
>> Here in vlc, both conflicts are versioned. Both apt and aptitude should
>> be able to find the obvious solution: pick the latest version of both
>> packages. How can this cause problems?
>
> New vlc needs vlc-nox to be installed first, but the new vlc-nox
> conflicts with the installed version of vlc...

That doesn't answer my question.

The (obvious) solution to this dependency situation is to upgrade both
vlc and vlc-nox at the same time. Both apt and aptitude seem to find
this solution.

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