Bug#670861: libavcodec53: unsatisfiable dependencies on libavutil51

[Andres Mejia]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de> wrote:
> Package: libavcodec53
> Version: 6:0.8.1-5
> Severity: grave
>
> Your package is not installable, because it depends on both
> libavutil51 (>= 6:0.8.1-5) and libavutil51 (<< 5:0.8.1-99) which cannot
> possibly be both fulfilled.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc4-nouveau+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>
>
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Offtopic here but,

I want to make sure we do not have anymore bugs like this in the next
release of Debian after wheezy. I am for having only one libavcodec
library that is GPLv3+ enabled.

I don't have specific stats but I imagine packages that cannot go with
a GPLv3+ enabled libav are few and are simply other (L)GPL packages.
In such a case, these packages should just be relicensed (LGPLv2.1+ or
GPLv2+ should be fine). A more extreme measure is that these packages
are simply dropped, but if that what it takes to stop this kind of
bug, I rather have the packages dropped.

-- 
~ Andres