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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-06-05 07:32 +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:

> 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.

This is a problem of libdirectfb-1.2.9 which ought not to conflict with
libdirectfb-1.2-0.  Anyway, the severity should be downgraded.

Sven