[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#495822: paraview: Needs specific version of ffmpeg

[Tom Parker]

Package: paraview
Version: 3.2.3-2
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

Fragment from my buildlog

[ 16%] Building CXX object VTK/IO/CMakeFiles/vtkIO.dir/vtkFFMPEGWriter.o
/data/tparker/builder/sources/paraview_3.2.3-2/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx: In member function ‘void vtkFFMPEGWriterInternal::End()’:
/data/tparker/builder/sources/paraview_3.2.3-2/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:339: error: cannot convert ‘ByteIOContext’ to ‘ByteIOContext*’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘int url_fclose(ByteIOContext*)’
make[3]: *** [VTK/IO/CMakeFiles/vtkIO.dir/vtkFFMPEGWriter.o] Error 1

Admittedly this is with version 3:0.cvs20060823-3.1ubuntu4+medibuntu2
attempting to be built on a Ubuntu system, but given ffmpeg's tendancy
to break API on a moments notice, I'd bet on paraview having a tighter
dependancy on ffmpeg than the current unversioned dep would otherwise
indicate.

Actually..  url_fclose turns out to be part of libavformat-dev, but the
same notes apply as it's a subpart of ffmpeg and paraview has an
unversioned dep on it right now.

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