vlc in Debian Testing

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

This morning I ran an apt-get dist-upgrade, and vlc (and its friends)
got uninstalled because of a borked dependency.  This is fine, and
happens from time to time in Debian - usually you just reinstall the
lost program and it comes in with all its new requirements.

Today however, I've been getting this (reformatted for width):

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: vlc-nox (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not going to be 
       installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not 
       going to be installed
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-pulse (= 1.1.3-1squeeze2) but it is not 
       going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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It appears that vlc-nox depends on a package that is now unintstallable,
causing me to lose my video player.

I have two thoughts about this.  One, ask the list it anyone else is
having this problem, and if they can solve it.  The other is to change
my "testing" status to "unstable", install vlc and then change it back.
Anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks.
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yours,

William

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