Bug#430710: vlc: build-depends on obsolete linux-kernel-headers

[Steve Langasek]

Package: vlc
Version: 0.8.6.c-1
Severity: serious
Tags: sid

The vlc package is now failing to build on some autobuilders, because it has
a versioned build-dependency on linux-kernel-headers which is now obsolete:

[...]
Toolchain package versions: libc6-dev_2.5-11 linux-kernel-headers_=*=PROVIDED=*= gcc-4.1_4.1.2-12 g++-4.1_4.1.2-12 binutils_2.17cvs20070426-8 libstdc++6-4.1-dev_4.1.2-12 libstdc++6_4.2-20070609-1
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dpkg-source: extracting vlc in vlc-0.8.6.c
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is vlc
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.8.6.c-1
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 0.8.6.c-1
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: linux-kernel-headers (>= 2.5.999-test7-bk-7)
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
[...]

A full build log can be found at
<http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=vlc&arch=amd64&ver=0.8.6.c-1&stamp=1182819327>.

linux-kernel-headers has been replaced by linux-libc-dev, now built directly
from the linux-2.6 source package.  linux-kernel-headers is still present in
unstable at the moment, but not all buildds will have it installed, and soon
it will go away altogether.

Please update your package to either build-depend on
linux-libc-dev | linux-kernel-headers (>= $version), or to not build-depend
on either package since this build-dependency is satisfied by all versions
of l-k-h since oldstable.

A quick response to this issue would also be appreciated, since vlc is
affected by the ongoing libflac transition.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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