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

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 2018-01-04 15:38:14, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 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.

The current version in stable was branched of before this change. You can look
at the version graph in the BTS for more info.

> 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.

… in that case someone needs to provide a backport of vlc. stable is the wrong
place to accomodate to changes in backports.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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