remove xbmc from Debian testing/unstable?

[James Cowgill]

On 18/11/16 19:45, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> 2016-10-26 13:12 GMT+02:00 Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu>:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> 2016-10-26 12:48 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:
>>> On 26/10/16 11:00, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> 2016-09-21 4:28 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org>:
>>>>> On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 18:14 +0200, Bálint Réczey wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have changed kodi 17.x to provide xbmc*.
>>>>>> The next upload to experimental will contain the fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> Excellent, thanks for that!
>>>>
>>>> It seems it is too much hassle to maintain the xbmc packages
>>>> generated from kodi source, see #842141.
>>>>
>>>> I could append the current version to the xbmc package versions,
>>>> but that would just confuse users.
>>>
>>> This is normal for transitional packages.
>>>
>>>> If you have any good idea please share it, otherwise I'm revert to
>>>> provide the transitional packages from xbmc.
>>>
>>> This is what I'm about to upload to do the mplayer2 -> mpv transition:
>>> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/mpv.git/commit/?id=1ef5c58015019a414bd89c98b1de215c3fcbcca5
>>>
>>> That allows me to not epoch the whole of mpv.
>>
>> Thanks, let's try this then.
> 
> For the record somehow the 2: epoch sneaked in for kodi and I had to
> adopt it everywhere in the package. :-\

That's unfortunate.

kodi 17.0~beta5+dfsg1-3:
> -override_dh_gencontrol:
> +override_dh_gencontrol-arch:
>  	debian/dh-addon/dh_kodiaddon_depends
> -	dh_gencontrol -pxbmc -pxbmc-bin -pxbmc-eventclients-common \
> +	dh_gencontrol -a -pxbmc-bin -- -v2:"$(VERSION)"
> +	dh_gencontrol -a --remaining-packages

The "-a -pxbmc-bin" is what broke it. Debhelper applied the epoch to the
_union_ of arch dependent packages and 'xbmc-bin' instead of the
intersection which is probably what you expected it to do.

James

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