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Re: reasons for split of libavcodec54 and libavcodec-extra-54, missing codecs and a metapackage.



Hi,

On 20.11.2014 21:00, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Quoting Andreas Cadhalpun (2014-11-20 17:09:49)
On 19.11.2014 13:09, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
Possibly we can simplify even further:

    * Have package libavcodec-extra-NN provide virtual libavcodec-extra
      (i.e. non-versioned name of itself)
    * Let GPLv2 packages conflict against libavcodec-extra (i.e. not
      replace but complement existing suggests/recommends/depends).

How does that sound?

This sounds good, except that the virtual package needs another name,
because libavcodec-extra is actually a real package [1].

I don't see a problem in conflicting both with virtual provisions of the
package and the real package - as the latter seems to me to provide
nothing beyond pulling in latest of those same virtual provisions.

Indeed, that's no problem.

Best regards,
Andreas


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