Bug#702762: "More or less" dead upstream

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
> 2014/1/12 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>>
>>> From the email [1] on the VLC list I had the impression that
>>> libpostproc is broken.
>>
>> That is my understanding as well. That's why I wanted to hear from you
>> XBMC needs libpostproc for. Did you notice any visual improvements
>> from enabling the libpostproc filter in XBMC?
> Now I have tried it and the results look pretty good on Jessie.
> The postprocessing option is visible when playing the video.
>
> Please keep the package and I think this bug could be closed.
> Maybe #729332 could be fixed as well. ;-)

Oh, indeed, I'll have a look at that shortly.

>>> So if libpostproc will stay with us could you please upload it to
>>> wheezy-backports to let me upload xbmc, too?
>>
>> Is this really necessary? What's the problem with the libpostproc-dev
>> package provided by libav 0.8 in stable?
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libpostproc-dev
> It depends on libavutil-dev, but XBMC needs newer libavutil-dev:
> $ sudo apt-get install libpostproc-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 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:
>  libpostproc-dev : Depends: libavutil-dev (= 6:0.8.9-1) but
> 6:9.10-1~bpo70+1 is to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Oh I see. The dependencies are overly strict in stable. Well, since
fixing the dependencies in stable is hard and takes lots of time, I
guess you're right and we should have a backported libpostproc in
stable. I'll have a look at that.

Thanks for your help identifying the problem and working on the xbmc backport!

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard