Bug#568961: FTBFS: configure: error: unable to configure ffmpegthumbnailer support

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Di, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:15:00 (CET), Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote:

> Package: mediatomb
> Version: 0.12.0~svn2018-5
> Severity: serious
> Justification: ftbfs
>
> Hi,
>
> mediatomb FTBFS on sid.
>
> [...]
> checking for av_register_all in -lavformat... yes
> checking for av_log_set_callback in -lavutil... yes
> checking libffmpegthumbnailer/videothumbnailerc.h usability... yes
> checking libffmpegthumbnailer/videothumbnailerc.h presence... yes
> checking for libffmpegthumbnailer/videothumbnailerc.h... yes
> checking for create_thumbnailer in -lffmpegthumbnailer... no
> checking for create_thumbnailer in -lffmpegthumbnailer... no
> configure: error: unable to configure ffmpegthumbnailer support
> make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/iwamatsu/mediatomb/mediatomb-0.12.0~svn2018'
> [...]
>
> ffmpegthumbnailer[0] was updated to 2.0. This doesn't support 
> create_thumbnailer function with 2.0.
>
> Please check your pakcage.

I took a quick look at the upstream svn log, and found the following
commits that seems to be relevant:

,----
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r2044 | jin_eld | 2010-01-08 11:17:37 +0100 (Fr, 08. Jan 2010) | 4 Zeilen
| 
| Recognition of old ffmpegthumbnailer API was failing if 
| --enable-ffmpegthumbnailer was passed to configure
| 
| [...]
| 
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------
| r2042 | jin_eld | 2010-01-06 19:41:20 +0100 (Mi, 06. Jan 2010) | 4 Zeilen
| 
| Made sure we are prepared for the ffmpegthumbnailer 2.0 API (thanks to Dirk 
| for fixing the name clash between ffmpegthumbnailer and ImageMagick)
`----

this seems to me that we should probably either cherry pick these
changes, or move to a post r2044 snapshot. Another option would be to
remove ffmpegthumbnailer support completely.

Since this issue is marked with severity 'serious', I'm CC'ing all
listed Maintainers of this package. What is your opinion of this issue?

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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4