[Python-apps-team] Bug#713017: Bug#693481: Processed: block 713017 with 693481

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:35:24 أحمد المحمودي wrote:
>   How is 693481 blocking 713017 ?

Xpra bundles "python-webm" library that xpra-upstream patches to
hardcode library names ("libwebp.so", "libwebp.so.2", "libwebp.so.4").
Therefore the bug is that we have corresponding hard-coded
dependency on particular library i.e. "libwebp2" or "libwebp4".

This is wrong, fragile and actually not even xpra problem after all,
so merely bumping Depends is not a fix but temporary workaround.

I fixed this problem in de-coupled "python-webm" package which is
waiting for approval in NEW. There will be no hard dependency on
"libwebp*" -- instead dependency will be calculated on build-time
according to installed "libwebp-dev".

Also "python-webm" will be dynamically discovering "libwebp" using
"find_library" from "ctypes.util" rather than look for hard-coded
.so.N name.

Cheers,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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