Bug#668831: libxine2-xvdr: should provide plugin library in multi-arched path

[Dominique Dumont]

Le Sunday 15 April 2012 09:14:48, vous avez écrit :
> On 14.04.2012 20:36, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > Xine is now looking for plugins in multi-arch'ed directory:
> >   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xine/plugins/2.1/
> > 
> > ii  libxine2         1:1.2.1-0.4
> 
> You are using the xine packages from debian-multimedia.org, not the
> official Debian packages.

Arg. This bug was so obvious that I've searched for mistakes in my setup, I've 
waited more than a week before reporting it. I did not realised that xine was 
also packaged by the mighty Marillat. :-p

> The xine packages in Debian don't have MultiArch yet.
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libxine2-misc-plugins/filelist
> 
> Any suggestion on how to resolve this? Maybe a conflict on epoch+1?

Well, let's say I do not really fancy a package conflicting with a future 
version of itself.

In this instance, multiarch'ed xine should look in both directories to ensure 
a smooth transition. Unfortunately, this would require Christian to patch his 
xine package.

Ideally, all package from debian-multimedia should have a -dmo suffix (with 
proper conflict and replace statement). This would have several benefits:
- avoid confusion between vanilla debian and dmo when logging bugs 
  (like this one)
- would enable users to cherry-pick between the 2 repos without using apt- 
  pinning tricks
- would avoid using epoch to distinguish between 2 repos

Unless this happens to be a bad idea, I'll raise the point to the dmo mailing 
list.

As for this bug, I think you can close it. It's not a pebkac issue but close 
;-)

All the best

Dominique
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