Bug#755154: vlc cache gen should happen at runtime, not buildtime

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2014-08-22 08:25, Harald Sitter a écrit :
>> That is one good reason to generate the cache at build time, where 
>> any problem
>> can be detected early on. Crashing during dpkg postinst script is 
>> much worse.
>
> || true?

Then there will be no cache, and you are not solving the problem you 
want to solve.

> I fail to see how exactly the additions could make the maintainer
> scripts fail to be honest, other than having a broken cache-gen which
> surely is the sign of a much deeper problem that should not have
> gotten beyond build time to begin with.

Experience has shown that changes to certain libraries causes the cache 
generation to crash, and the maintainers of those libraries do not test 
against VLC before uploading to Debian. I mean glib, gobject, Qt, GL, 
libav to name the obvious ones...

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Rémi Denis-Courmont