Bug#702762: "More or less" dead upstream

[Bálint Réczey]

2014/1/12 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint at balintreczey.hu> wrote:
>
>> From the email [1] on the VLC list I had the impression that
>> libpostproc is broken.
>
> That is my understanding as well. That's why I wanted to hear from you
> XBMC needs libpostproc for. Did you notice any visual improvements
> from enabling the libpostproc filter in XBMC?
Now I have tried it and the results look pretty good on Jessie.
The postprocessing option is visible when playing the video.

Please keep the package and I think this bug could be closed.
Maybe #729332 could be fixed as well. ;-)

>
>> If it is working fine I don't see why it should be dropped and I'll
>> keep libpostproc support in XBMC, too.
>
> Well I kept it around to not break the compilation of existing
> programs. And that part seems to be ok-ish.
>
>> I have looked into the source more closely and it seems using a very
>> hidden setting
>> XBMC users can pass postproc filters to libpostproc thus I can't
>> replace it with vf_yadif.
>
> vf_yadif is certainly no drop-in replacement, as it has a totally
> different API. This replacement may require significant knowledge of
> the codebase.
>
>> So if libpostproc will stay with us could you please upload it to
>> wheezy-backports to let me upload xbmc, too?
>
> Is this really necessary? What's the problem with the libpostproc-dev
> package provided by libav 0.8 in stable?
>
> http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libpostproc-dev
It depends on libavutil-dev, but XBMC needs newer libavutil-dev:
$ sudo apt-get install libpostproc-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libpostproc-dev : Depends: libavutil-dev (= 6:0.8.9-1) but
6:9.10-1~bpo70+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Cheers,
Balint