Bug#681136: libavcodec-extra-53: Cannot install libavcodec-extra-53 without losing kde

[Graham Cobb]

Package: libavcodec-extra-53
Version: 6:0.8.3-4
Severity: important


I attempted to follow the instructions on http://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs
to install libavcodec-extra-53, however I get the following error from apt-get:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kde-workspace-dbg : Depends: kde-runtime-dbg but it is not going to be installed
 libsmokekparts3 : Depends: libsmokekio3 (= 4:4.8.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
 plasma-widgets-workspace : Depends: plasma-dataengines-workspace (= 4:4.8.4-3) but it is not going to be installed
 polkit-kde-1 : Depends: kdebase-runtime but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

If I try:

apt-get install libavcodec-extra-53 libavcodec53-

apt-get tries to remove the whole of kde.

I speculate that some kde package has a dependency on libavcodec53.  Should
libavcodec-extra-53 provide libavcodec53?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE at euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash