Bug#1033207: still an issue
On 2025-09-28 14:18:06 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le sunnuntai 28. syyskuuta 2025, 12.06.10 Itä-Euroopan kesäaika Sebastian
> Ramacher a écrit :
> > Control: tags -1 upstream
>
> It works fine upstream. VLC 3.0.x recommends placebo version 0.2.1. Given that
> newer versions have radically different APIs & ABIs by choice of the placebo's
> main developer, they may as well be different libraries. It was also their
> assessment that using newer placebo versions in stable VLC 3.0.x was
> unreasonable.
>
> I can understand if keeping two versions of placebo is against the policies of
> Debian and or the multimedia team. But the distinction between different
> versions of one library and different competing libraries is mostly arbitrary.
> In the end, this is a self-inflicted bug within Debian.
>
> Call it wontfix if you want, but I fail to see how this is an upstream bug.
It depends on a completly unsupported libplacebo version which does not
build anymore in Debian (at least due to changes in vulkan headers). But
tag it as you want, there is no chance of this bug being fixed without
magical vlc 4.0 release or 3.0 gaining support for a recent libplacebo.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
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