add epoch '3:' to ffmpeg-debian, was: Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> Why that? The conflicts are all versioned and only bound to the current
>> package version. Having them like this in debian wouldn't hurt AFAIS.
>
> This is for libavutil-dev:
> -Conflicts: libavformat-dev (<< 0.cvs20060329-4),
> +Conflicts: libavformat-dev (<< 3:0.cvs20060329-4),
>
> and this is for libavformat-dev:
> -Conflicts: libavcodec-dev (<< 0.cvs20060306-1),
> +Conflicts: libavcodec-dev (<< 3:0.cvs20060306-1),
>
> Neither libavformat-dev (<< 0.cvs20060329-4) nor libavcodec-dev (<<
> 0.cvs20060306-1) has ever been available in Debian AFAICT.

They have been in oldstable. It seems that we can remove these conflicts
now. Thanks for spotting this.

>> the only difference is really the faad dependency.
>
> Since we don't have something like Build-Recommends in Debian
> (i.e. install if available, but do not fail if not), maybe we should add
> an alternative Build-Depends to libfaad-dev that is definitely
> installable from Ubuntu main, e.g.:
> libfaad-dev | libfaad2-dev | ubuntu-core,

interesting idea. ubuntu-standard would be a candidate for this. I'll
think about this on the next ffmpeg upstream sync!
>
> On the other hand, this is a very, very, very dirty hack and I am
> already ashamed that I proposed this... ;)

I remember this has already been proposed as workaround for missing
Build-Recommends earlier. For other reasons, though.

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