Bug#792619: transition: ffmpeg

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> (The command line tools transition is not required to happen in lock step,
> because the transitional package libav-tools-links can satisfy the
> dependencies, until the packages are updated.)

and from the wiki page:
> To facilitate the transition, a libav-tools-links package, which
> 'Provides: libav-tools' and contains links from the av* to the ff*
> binaries is going to be built from src:ffmpeg.

That sounds very fragile. Apt does not handle upgrades from real to
virtual packages very well, you should use a real transitional package
named 'libav-tools' (which could just depend on libav-tools-links).
(See 'apt does not find an upgrade path' bugs from the last years ...)

Cc:ing David Kalnischkies who knows the inside of apt  :-)


Andreas