Bug#865353: libdvd-pkg: packages show up as obsolete packages, installs -dev and -dbgsym packaegs without need

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: libdvd-pkg
Version: 1.4.0-1-2
Severity: normal


Hi.

1) When running libdvd-pkg it installs all built packages automatically:
libdvdcss2
libdvdcss-dev
libdvdcss2-dbgsym
which is already not so nice.

2) These packages show up as local/obsolete packages, which isn't that nice either.
Can't you provide them in some simple local APT repo?
E.g. setting up a very basic repo-structure in /usr/src/libdvd-pkg (although this isn't probably
the proper place for this and rather some /var/cache/ location should be used).
and add that via a sources.list snipped in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?

Then the admin could decide which pacakges to select from that repo.


I'd also suggest to regularly purge that basic repo, to get rid of old pacakges
there which may have security issues.

Cheers,
Chris.