Please binNMU phonon-backend-vlc against the new libvlccore7

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Wed Oct 30 16:44:45 UTC 2013


On 2013-10-30 15:48, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> On Mi, 2013-10-30 at 13:08 +0100, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>>    Hello,
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:38:29 +0000, "Adam D. Barratt"
>> <adam at adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
>> > On 2013-10-28 6:46, Mateusz Łukasik wrote:
>> >> recently vlc source package has been updated and it now builds
>> >> libvlccore7  instead of libvlccore5.
[...]
>> > phonon-backend-vlc isn't the only package affected; CCing the
>> > maintainers - what's the plan here?
[...]
> I concur with upstream. These packages should be fixed to use the 
> stable
> API from libvlc instead of using libvlccore. Looking at the other
> package, they all just depend on libvlc, but not on libvlccore. Just
> phonon-backend-vlc requires libvlccore.

Mea culpa, I obviously had a moment and missed that only libvlccore had 
changed SONAME (can I blame jetlag?).

However, it's not just phonon-backend-vlc - goldencheetah depends on 
both libvlc and libvlccore.

Regards,

Adam



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