vlc in Debian Testing

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:36:31PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:30:27PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> 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.

>Testing is rather susseptible to this when transitions are in progress.
>It is one of the places unstable often works better.
>
>It will usually resolve itself within a couple of days whenever it happens.
>
>You can try doing:
>apt-get install vlc-nox, and see why it says that isn't going to be
>installed.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc-nox : Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to 
           be installed or
                    libavcodec-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not 
                    installable
           Depends: libavformat52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not going to 
                    be installed or
                    libavformat-extra-52 (>= 4:0.5.1-1) but it is not 
                    installable
E: Broken packages

Further down the rabbit hole is this:

# apt-show-versions libavcodec52
libavcodec52/unknown uptodate 5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2

It is a funny little situation.  Normally, as I wrote, these are easily
unwedged, but perhaps not today.  I'll bump to unstable if I want to
watch anything tonight.
-- 

yours,

William

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