Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> I think this will result in uninstallable packages, unless I didn't
>> misunderstood your proposal.
>
> Maybe my idea is whole crap and I don't see it at the moment:
>
> Debian's libavutil49 (0.svn20080206-10) could conflict against
> libavcodec51, libavdevice52, libpostproc51, libavformat52 and
> libswscale0 (>= 3:20050427).

This means that the other binaries produced by the ffmpeg-debian package
are affected by this conflict as well and will be tried to removed on
upgrades, AFAIUI.

> This means, installing Debian's libavutil49
> will remove all of Marillat's packages except libavutil49 itself (which
> is the one we install right now anyway).
> If we repeat this scheme for all other library packages (i.e. conflict
> against everything >= 3:20050427, but not against yourself), we get a
> Marillat-free ffmpeg by installing only one of the Debian packages.

This seems to me highly complicated without much gain. I don't think
that this will work.

Moreover if we find some way to break the packages from
http://debian-multimedia.org, marillat some other way to work around
that. I don't think we should engage into that game in the first place.

The conflicts on the lib*cvs package was another game, because there we
don't conflict against our own packages. Eventually we will rename our
packages to 'libavcodec-stripped-51', which would reenable us do the
trick you propose here.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4