Bug#550516: libopal3.6.6: uninstallable on i386, was built with libx264

[Simon McVittie]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

Package: libopal3.6.6
Version: 3.6.6~dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Justification: uninstallable on i386

The PTS page <http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/opal.html> says it all:
> libopal3.6.6/i386 unsatisfiable Depends: libx264-76 (>= 1:0.svn20090928)

This could be fixed with a binary NMU, but since Opal currently has a release
critical bug that will need a sourceful upload, I'm not going to bother the
release team about it.

It appears that the maintainer build of libopal was done with libx264-dev
installed. libx264 is not part of Debian due to patent issues (presumably the
maintainer got it from debian-multimedia).

Please do not build packages for upload in anything other than a normal
Debian unstable system. pbuilder, cowbuilder and schroot/sbuild are useful
ways to do the build in a minimal unstable chroot with no non-Debian packages
(which also gives you easy verification that you have specified the
Build-Depends correctly).

The setup I use might be useful; it's described in
<http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/sbuild-dm/>.

If ./configure supports an option like --without-x264 or --disable-x264, it
might also be a good idea to use it in debian/rules, to cause builds done on
an unclean system to produce the same results as on a clean system.

Regards,
    Simon

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libopal3.6.6 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.9-27         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcelt0                  0.6.1-1        The CELT codec runtime library
ii  libexpat1                 2.0.1-4        XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.4.1-6      GCC support library
ii  libgsm1                   1.0.13-1       Shared libraries for GSM speech co
ii  libldap-2.4-2             2.4.17-2       OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libogg0                   1.1.4~dfsg-1   Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpt2.6.5                2.6.5-1        Portable Tools Library
ii  libsasl2-2                2.1.23.dfsg1-2 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libsdl1.2debian           1.2.13-5       Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libspeex1                 1.2~rc1-1      The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libspeexdsp1              1.2~rc1-1      The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8k-5       SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.1-6        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libtheora0                1.1.1-2        The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  unixodbc                  2.2.11-20      ODBC tools libraries

libopal3.6.6 recommends no packages.

libopal3.6.6 suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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=h19r
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----