[SCM] libav/master: Seperate the ffmpeg program into the transitional package.

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2012 3:48 AM, "Reinhard Tartler" <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:44 PM,  <ceros-guest at users.alioth.debian.org>
>> wrote:
>> > The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
>> > commit ea819ac5706a98397a834d8f9a6972d92210e969
>> > Author: Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com>
>> > Date:   Tue Mar 27 14:44:27 2012 -0400
>> >
>> >    Seperate the ffmpeg program into the transitional package.
>> >
>> > diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
>> > index 2f6df67..1421f10 100644
>> > --- a/debian/control
>> > +++ b/debian/control
>> > @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Build-Depends:
>> >  Package: libav-tools
>> >  Section: video
>> >  Architecture: any
>> > +Provides:
>> > + ffmpeg
>>
>> This is wrong, because this breaks versioned dependencies on the
>> 'ffmpeg' package AFAIUI.
>
> Is there a package out there that needs a specific version of ffmpeg?

TBH, I'm not sure, but I think I remember having seen this in the past.

In any case, maintaining the possibility to declare versioned
dependency seems worthwhile to me.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard