Bug#849484: libavformat57 has circular Depends on libchromaprint1

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: severity -1 important

On 2016-12-28 01:16:24, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 libchromaprint1 1.4.1-1
> Control: severity -1 serious

No need to use overinflated severities for that or at least quote some part of
the policy it violates. It will be fixed in time for the stretch release.

Regards

> Hi Bill,
> 
> On 27.12.2016 19:06, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > There is a circular dependency between libavformat57 and libchromaprint1:
> > 
> > libavformat57 	        :Depends: libchromaprint1 (>= 1.3.2)
> > libchromaprint1 	:Depends: libavformat57 (>= 7:3.2.2)
> > 
> > Circular dependencies involving shared libraries are known to cause problems
> > during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to avoid them.
> 
> Thanks for catching that.
> 
> Libavformat uses libchromaprint since version 7:3.0-1, while libchromaprint
> started linking libavformat only in the last uploaded version 1.4.1-1.
> Previously only libchromaprint-tools used libavformat.
> 
> While it would be easy to disable chromaprint support in ffmpeg, that
> would be a feature regression, so I'd rather not do that.
> 
> Hence I'm reassigning this to chromaprint.
> As this is not the time in the release cycle to let such issues slip
> into testing, I'm raising the severity to serious to prevent testing
> migration of the new chromaprint, until this issue is solved.
> 
> Now the question is, why did libchromaprint start using libavformat?
> Can this functionality be moved to libchromaprint-tools or at least
> be disabled?
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 
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