Bug#886233: vlc: VLC cannot be instaled with recent Mesa

[Michal Suchanek]

On 3 January 2018 at 16:28, Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org> wrote:
> Control: found -1 2.2.4-13
> Control: notfound -1 2.2.6-6
> Control: forcemerge -1 855117
>
> On 2018-01-03 14:29:43, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> Package: src:vlc
>> Followup-For: Bug #886233
>>
>> Actually, the issue is with libegl1-mesa which does not have the
>> corresponding "vendor neutral" package.
>
> vlc (2.2.5-2) experimental; urgency=medium
>
>   [ Mateusz Łukasik ]
>   * debian/{control,rules,vlc-plugin-video-output.install}: Disable OpenGL
>     ES 1 support, mesa has dropped it. (Closes: #855117)
>
> So this is a duplicate of #855117. I don't think this is worth a backport to
> stable if that's what you are asking for. After all, mesa in stable is at
> version 13.

Yes, the stable mesa and stable vlc work together. The part that this
is fixed in 2.2.5 in experimental and is still broken in 2.2.7 in
stable is quite confusing, though.

I probably installed 2.2.6 from unstable or experimental together with
newer mesa when my graphics was broken and now the 'upgrade' to stable
version does not work.

I think it still makes sense to remove the dependency in stable. It
makes it possible to test newer mesa with stable vlc in case of
graphics issues. As things are now you need to rebuild vlc to backport
recent mesa which is not exactly nice.

Thanks

Michal