[packman] phonon-backend-vlc

[Lorenzo Porta]

> From: e9325712 at student.tuwien.ac.at
> To: packman at links2linux.de
> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:15:34 +0200
> Subject: Re: [packman] phonon-backend-vlc
> 
> Am Montag, 29. September 2014, 12:02:33 schrieb Lorenzo Porta:
> > Then, I reactivated the building for all distros because the
> > package in the official repositories is not appropriate for packman vlc:
> The package from the official repos works fine here with Packman's VLC, ever 
> since 13.1 was released.
> Why is it not appropriate?
> 
> > it's built against the official "vlc-devel" package/libraries that are
> > different from packman vlc packages/libraries (if you don't trust me, just
> > verify that by yourselves using at least "diff" and "size"). 
> Of course, they are a different version.
> 13.1 has VLC 2.1.0 (2.1.3 in the update repo), whereas Packman has 2.1.5 at 
> the moment.
> But it should be compatible, as those are only bugfix updates.
> 
> Still, thank you for your work, I appreciate it!
> 
> Especially when VLC 2.2.0 is released, the phonon-backend-vlc should be built 
> against it specifically. Not only for stability, but also for additional 
> features like the Equalizer in particular.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Wolfgang
> 
You are welcome!
For information only - I'm on openSUSE Factory so I compared vlc 2.1.5 with 2.1.5 from packman and
they result different too:

lorenzo at linux-rk39:~/Scaricati> du -b vlc-devel-2.1.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm vlc-devel-2.1.5-217.3.x86_64.rpm 
182053  vlc-devel-2.1.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm
178630  vlc-devel-2.1.5-217.3.x86_64.rpm
lorenzo at linux-rk39:~/Scaricati> diff vlc-devel-2.1.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm vlc-devel-2.1.5-217.3.x86_64.rpm 
Binary files vlc-devel-2.1.5-3.1.x86_64.rpm and vlc-devel-2.1.5-217.3.x86_64.rpm differ