[packman] mjpegtools 2.0.0-1

[Dave Plater]

On 06/12/2011 02:38 PM, Manfred Tremmel wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 12. Juni 2011 schrieb Dave Plater:
>> On 06/09/2011 08:15 PM, Manfred Tremmel wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2011 schrieb yahoo-pier_andreit:
>>>> from tumbleweed I'm trying to update to mjpegtools 2.0.0-1 from
>>>> 1.9.0.0 but yast shows me this conflicts:
>>> I'll take a look on it this weekend. If I'm not able to fix the
>>> gstreamer incompatibility with mjpegtools 2.0.0 I'll add a
>>> mjpegtools compatibility package with the old libs.
>> The developers of mjpegtools are misguided about library versioning.
> So it is.
>
>> I attempted to update openSUSE multimedia:libs to 2.0.0rc1 last
>> December and eventually reverted to the existing 1.9.0. The
>> libraries are at major version 2 and they end up like this
>> "liblavfile-2.0.so.0.0.0" but the unversioned devel link is
>> "liblavfile.so". There's no logic here at all, if the developer
>> wanted parallel installable libraries why not match the devel parts
>> too and install the headers in versioned directories. To cut a long
>> story short I filed an upstream bug and started to fix the library
>> build to give proper so numbers because 2.0.0rc1 broke gstreamer in
>> factory and because there was plenty of other things to update and
>> fix for the looming release of 11.4, I reverted to the old version
>> and gstreamer was happy. If you patch gstreamer to work with a
> Sounds good.
>
>> broken package it will complicate matters more, rather revert to
>> 1.9.0 and help to fix the real problem with 2.0.0.. When I saw
>> Packman had 2.0.0 I thought that it would have a fixed build,
>> unfortunately not.
> I've done a quick and dirty solution at packman now. I've splitted out
> the libs into a mjpegtools-lib package and readded mjpegtools 1.9.0 as
> mjpegtools19. Both library packages (mjpegtools-lib and mjpegtools19-
> lib) can be installed without conflicts. Packagis having problems to
> build against mjpegtools 2.0.0 can use BuildRequires: mjpegtools19-devel
>
>> As all this happened at the beginning of
>> February I can't be sure but AFAIR I had gone as far as tracing the
>> gstreamer problem to the lib builds in mjpegtools, I've started to
>> pick at mjpegtools again and it will become priority one after I've
>> finished a few other packages. I have to cope with openSUSE library
>> policy and I'm not sure what the eventual outcome of library
>> developers making their own method of shared library parallel
>> installation, I'm working on a new package where the dev has done
>> the same as this but it's new and not as important as mjpegtools
>> which can silently break plenty of packages and render multimedia
>> unusable.
> Thanks for your engagemnet.
>
>> I'm about too collapse into bed, coffee doesn't work anymore so
>> please ask for clarification on anything I've said that sounds
>> insulting because that's not my intention. I'm cc ing
>> opensuse-packaging for comments and guidance.
> Sorry I can't do much on this topic. My skills in c programming are not
> so great and I've to big projects @work, so my sparetime is extremely
> limited.
>
The move to get openSUSE multimedia involved in Packman can only reduce your workload. Sorry I can't say much I've got things to do, read 
the email I cced to the Packman list when you've got time it's long.

Regards
Dave