[packman] TW20230129: unmet dependecies on VLC and MPlayer

[Simon Vogl]

Hi Manfred,

Original Message:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Wed, 01 Feb 2023, 15:19:20 +0100, Simon Vogl wrote:
>> [...]
>> The MPlayer package currently does not rebuild successfully on TW
>> because it's not compatible with ffmpeg-5 yet and therefore its build
>> fails. Due to that, PMBS hasn't rebuilt it with
>> libBasicUsageEnvironment2 yet.
>>
>> I made a request to force PMBS to build it with ffmpeg-4 instead of
>> ffmpeg-5, that should fix the dependency issues:
>>
>> https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/5671
> I remember having a similar issue with kodi. My initial idea was to
> BuildRequire: the ffmpeg-4 packages directly, but this turned out to
> loose the ability to require special version numbers. This is how the
> change currently in kodi.spec:
>
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libavcodec) >= 58.18.100 with pkgconfig(libavcodec) < 59)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libavfilter) >= 6.107.100 with pkgconfig(libavfilter) < 8)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libavformat) >= 58.12.100 with pkgconfig(libavformat) < 59)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libavutil) >= 56.14.100 with pkgconfig(libavutil) < 57)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libpostproc) >= 54.7.100 with pkgconfig(libpostproc) < 56)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libswscale) >= 4.8.100 with pkgconfig(libswscale) < 6)
> BuildRequires:  (pkgconfig(libswresample) >= 3.1.100 with pkgconfig(libswresample) < 4)
>
> If you agree, please make a similar change and create a superseeding SR
> for MPlayer. I'll then approve it. OK?
>
>> Regards.
> TIA, cheers.
>
> l8er
> manfred
>
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Thanks for the suggestion, I made a new request with the new
BuildRequires system here:

https://pmbs.links2linux.org/request/show/5672

Have a nice day.

Simon