Bug#759199: mencoder: depends on libdvdnavmini.so.4 which is not found

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Stuart Prescott <stuart at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libdvdnav4
> Control: forcemerge 758543 -1
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> thanks for your report -- unfortunately mencoder is not available for sid at
> all as it has been removed from the archive. The package you have been using
> is left over from wheezy. At best, we should be making other package
> dependencies such that the old mencoder package you had is removed from your
> system by apt as part of a dist-upgrade.
>
> If you are looking for alternatives to mencoder, then the "avconv" utility
> from the libav-tools package is probably the best place to start.
>
> regards
> Stuart
>
> (libdvdnav4 maintainers: should this have been a soname change? or some other
> conflict to force users of libdvdnavmini to be removed?)

I don't think that a version bump would have fixed that. libdvdnavmini
should have never been in the libdvdnav4 binary package, and in fact,
it has now been removed in the current upstream release. AFAIUI,
mplayer/mencoder is also the only application that used libdvdnavmini
(for not entirly convincing reasons).

If libdvdnavmini was used by lots of packages in Debian, we might
argue that we should have renamed the package to make this an explicit
transition. However, mplayer was the only affected package, so I'm not
sure what's left to do here.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard