Bug#748599: Packages must not depend on libavcodec-extra-NN
Thanks for the bug report.
* Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com>, 2014-05-18, 13:43:
The libav package provides two flavors of libavcodec: libavcodecNN and
libavcodec-extra-NN, with NN being the current soname (the current
transition changes NN from -54 -> 55).
It is not a good idea for packages to depend on libavcodec-extra-NN in
any case. Instead, packages should depend on the libavcodec-extra meta
package that depends on the latest libavcodec-extra-NN package.
Well, I don't think it's a good idea to ever depend on shlib
metapackage. That would normally be a violation of Policy §8.6:
“If a package contains a binary or library which links to a shared
library, we must ensure that, when the package is installed on the
system, all of the libraries needed are also installed. These
dependencies must be added to the binary package when it is built, since
they may change based on which version of a shared library the binary or
library was linked with […].”
--
Jakub Wilk
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