vlc in Debian Testing

William O'Higgins Witteman william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 24 21:56:44 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 04:31:28PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 03:56:30PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Yeah you might have to.
>
>apt-get install libavcodec52 libavformat52 libavformat-extra-52 doesn't
>work either?

Package libavformat-extra-52 is not available, but is referred to by
another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

So, good question, but no.  It looks like they are rearranging the
package and its dependencies, but they aren't done yet.
-- 

yours,

William

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