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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Tom Parker <palfrey at tevp.net> wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz>:
>> Could you please tell us which version of ffmpeg do you have? I just
>> built paraview in Debian couple days ago and cannot reproduce this.
>
> The Ubuntu package appears to be an CVS snapshot from 20060823
> (probably very similar to the same dated version in etch). More
> bizarrely, I've been looking at ffmpeg SVN for the relevant header
> (http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavformat/avio.h?view=annotate)
> and it looks like it's had that function signature from the beginning!
> I did also find another bug report upstream to paraview
> (http://www.paraview.org/pipermail/paraview/2008-July/008852.html)
> which seems to indicate that there are other people having issues with
> this (and that was on a Debian Etch machine).

Thanks for the info. Is there something we can do with this in Debian
unstable? I understand that there are problems in other systems, but
unless we can reproduce it in Debian sid, we cannot help much.

Ondrej