Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy
On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:09:21PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> Trying to install mediatomb on wheezy, I got:
>
> serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) <marked as done in some version>
> #677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of
> libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5)
>
> I have several question about this error:
What does the bug report say about #677959?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677959
> 1/ what means "fixed mediatomb/0.12.1-5" ?
The bug no longer exists in version 0.12.1-5
[bug triaging snipped]
> NB: after that, I downloaded the source, and built it succesfully !!
> (still version 0.12.1-4)
So *you* couldn't reproduce it, doesn't mean bug doesn't exist for
someone. (e.g. did you use same libavformat source as bug submitter?)
> So, I still don't understand why "apt-get install" fails.
FTBFS, etc are source package errors have nothing to do with "apt-get
install" failing. Humans still need to read the output of
apt-listbugs and decide for themselves whether that bug will affect
them.
> 4/ more generally, I had recently a lot of such apt-listbugs errors when
> trying to install packages. This seems surprizing for a distro
> released about 6 monts ago.
*Anyone* can submit a bug at *anytime*.
Note: I have no knowledge of this bug, and have not read the bug report.
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