Bug#584617: Installation causes massive dependency problems for many other packages

[Juhapekka Tolvanen]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3
Severity: critical


This is what happens, when I try to install that latest version of mplayer:

mplayer version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3 depends on libdirectfb-1.2-9.
Then that package called libdirectfb-1.2-9 conflicts with
libdirectfb-1.2-0 . When I try to purge libdirectfb-1.2-0 , hell breaks
loose: aptitude suggests removal of 756 packages! And most of them are
very important at least for me.

Please fix this as soon as possible!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (1001, 'unstable'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (101, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mplayer depends on:
ii  libaa1             1.4p5-38              ascii art library
ii  libasound2         1.0.23-1              shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2          1.9.2-3               Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libavcodec52       5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 library to encode decode multimedi
ii  libavformat52      5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg file format library
ii  libavutil49        4:0.5.2-1             ffmpeg utility library
ii  libc6              2.11.1-2              Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcaca0           0.99.beta17-1         colour ASCII art library
ii  libcdparanoia0     3.10.2+debian-9       audio extraction tool for sampling
pn  libdirectfb-1.2-9  <none>                (no description available)
ii  libdvdread4        4.1.3-9               library for reading DVDs
ii  libenca0           1.13-1                Extremely Naive Charset Analyser -
ii  libesd0            0.2.41-7              Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.3.11-1              FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libfribidi0        0.19.2-1              Free Implementation of the Unicode
ii  libgcc1            1:4.4.4-4             GCC support library
ii  libgif4            4.1.6-9               library for GIF images (library)
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [l 7.7.1-3               A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libjack0           1.9.5~dfsg-13         JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libjpeg62          6b-16.1               The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblircclient0     0.8.3-5               infra-red remote control support -
ii  liblzo2-2          2.03-2                data compression library
ii  libncurses5        5.7+20100313-2        shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0            1.2.0~dfsg-1          Ogg bitstream library
ii  libopenal1         1:1.12.854-2          Software implementation of the Ope
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.43-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libpostproc51      5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 postproc shared libraries
ii  libpulse0          0.9.21-1.2            PulseAudio client libraries
pn  libsdl1.2debian    <none>                (no description available)
ii  libsmbclient       2:3.4.8~dfsg-1        shared library for communication w
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.4.4-4               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libsvga1           1:1.4.3-29            console SVGA display libraries
ii  libswscale0        5:0.6~svn20100603-0.0 ffmpeg video scaling library
ii  libtheora0         1.1.1+dfsg.1-3        The Theora Video Compression Codec
ii  libx11-6           2:1.3.3-3             X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6           2:1.1.1-3             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxinerama1       2:1.1-3               X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxt6             1:1.0.7-1             X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxv1             2:1.0.5-1             X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1           2:1.0.5-1             X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1       2:1.1.1-2             X11 Direct Graphics Access extensi
ii  libxxf86vm1        1:1.1.0-2             X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

mplayer recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mplayer suggests:
ii  bzip2          1.0.5-4                   high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  fontconfig     2.8.0-2.1                 generic font configuration library
ii  fping          2.4b2-to-ipv6-16.1        sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii  mplayer-doc    2:1.0~rc3+svn20100603-0.0 Documentation for mplayer
ii  netselect      0.3.ds1-14                speed tester for choosing a fast n
ii  ttf-freefont   20090104-7                Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True

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