[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] Bug#659361: Bug#659361: Reverting of mp4/m4a support (please add back)

[Matteo F. Vescovi]

Hi!

On 10/02/2012 15:39, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> I have applied the attached patch to the gtkpod 2.1.1 Debian package
> (please note that I added just another SONAME, because the libmp4v2
> Debian package is already at 2), ran autoreconf and rebuilt it, all
> without libmp4v2-dev installed. The m4a and mp4 plugins were built fine
> and got installed into the resulting binary package:
>
> $ dpkg -c ../gtkpod_2.1.1-1_i386.deb | egrep 'm4a|mp4'
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 21108 2012-02-10 15:23
> ./usr/lib/gtkpod/libfiletype_m4a.so
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 20032 2012-02-10 15:23
> ./usr/lib/gtkpod/libfiletype_mp4.so
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 395 2012-02-10 15:23
> ./usr/lib/gtkpod/filetype_m4a.plugin
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 400 2012-02-10 15:23
> ./usr/lib/gtkpod/filetype_mp4.plugin
>
> I could install the gtkpod packages, start the application and
> explicitely activate the plugins in the corresponding preferences menu.
> I didn't test any further, though.
>
> Please note that dh_shlibdeps gave warnings like "dpkg-shlibdeps:
> warning: debian/gtkpod/usr/lib/gtkpod/libfiletype_m4a.so contains an
> unresolvable reference to symbol dlopen: it's probably a plugin." for
> both plugins, so maybe a line like "libfiletype_{m4a,mp4}_la_LIBADD =
> -ldl" should get added to the appropriate Makefile.am files.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Fabian

Your efforts are really appreciated! :-)

I will test and apply your patch as soon as I find some free time. Maybe 
in the weekend, already.
Once all the changes have been made and checked, I'll ask my sponsor to 
upload the new revision.

Thanks a lot.

Cheers.

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