Re: Broken packages............

[Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com>]

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au>
> wrote:
> >  On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:25:18 +0200 "Arno Schuring
> >  aelschuring@hotmail.com" suggested this:
> >
> >>Charlie (ariestao@skymesh.com.au on 2011-10-27 16:35 +1100):
> >>>
> >>> libavcodec52:
> >>>   Depends: libavutil50 (<4:0.6.2-99) but 5:0.7.1-0.1 is to be
> >>> installed or libavutil-extra-50 (<4:0.6.2-99) but it is not
> >>> installable
[..]
> > deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
> >
> > Is that a problem? Does it use an old libavutil50 package?

DMO declares a higher epoch for all its packages (5: vs 4:), which
means that it is not possible to mix packages between DMO and the
original Debian.

The error message above implies that libavcodecs52 is only available in
Debian, and conflicts with the already installed packages from DMO.


Wu-Kung Sun (sunwukung@gmail.com on 2011-10-28 09:56 -0500):
> It looks like debian-multimedia has xvidcap built against
> libavdevice52 which has since been replaced by libavdevice53.
> http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/package/xvidcap.php
> http://debian-multimedia.org/dists/testing/main/binary-amd64/package/libavdevice53.php
> If I'm right, only the DMO maintainers can fix this so I've copied
> that list which I hope is ok.

Thanks!


Arno