Bug#881358: breaks compatibility with libva1

[Jamon Terrell]

You're right, I'm mistaken.  I suppose that was manually installed during
my troubleshooting as well. Sorry about that.

That aside, though--while it was a manual install, libva1 does work
side-by-side with libva2, but vdpau-va-driver does not.

It would be incredibly nice if one could run both side-by-side without
hacking their way outside of the debian package management world.  Is this
something that any thought has been given to?  I guess snap/flatpak/etc is
the "future" debian solution to this problem, though?  Do you have other
suggestions for better ways of supporting users who would like to be able
to run apps that haven't spent the time necessary to chase the latest
breaking changes in each new release?

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 3:30 PM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher at debian.org>
wrote:

> On 2018-03-20 19:46:14, Jamon Terrell wrote:
> > Not all applications have been updated to work with libva2, and debian
> > unstable does allow installation of libva1 and libva2 concurrently, but
> > this doesn't work for vdpau because vdpau-va-driver 0.7.4-6 only works
> with
> > libva1 and vdpau-va-driver 0.7.4-7 only works with libva2.  This forces
> > users who want libva1 support to manually install the older version of
> > vdpau-va-driver, and doesn't allow concurrent use of both.
>
> I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that one is still able to
> install
> libva1 in unstable. It was removed long time ago. Also, all users of libva
> in
> Debian have migrated to libva2.
>
> Cheers
> --
> Sebastian Ramacher
>
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