Bug#876257: libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37: blocks upgrade path for libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 1.12.3

[Alberto Garcia]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:53:07AM +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> it looks like libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 is blocking the upgrade path
> for libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 1.12.3, looking at the package
> dependencies I spotted these constraints:
> 
> libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0 (<< 1.12.3)
> 
> which explain the issue.
> 
> However I am not sure about why both constraints are there.

That's gst-plugins-bad:

DEB_DH_MAKESHLIBS_ARGS_libgstreamer-plugins-bad$(gst_deb_abi) += -V "libgstreamer-plugins-bad$(gst_deb_abi) (>= $(gst_version)), libgstreamer-plugins-bad$(gst_deb_abi) (<< $(gst_version_next))"

From its changelog:

  + Split the libraries into their own package and add a -dev package.
    The API of the library is not guaranteed to be stable and as such
    the shlibs of the library package are very strict and will require
    dependant libraries to get a rebuild after every new upstream version.

I understand that its rdeps need to be rebuilt each time there's a new
upstream version, or how is that supposed to work? Sebastian?

Berto