[packman] Packman: zypper dup failure related to VLC since TW 20251229

[Philippe Conde]

balkan fox a écrit :
> Greetings.
>
> There appears to be an ongoing issue with system upgrades, this time
> related to VLC. Although there have since been more snapshots released,
> this is currently still blocking successful operations. Most curiously,
> Problem 1 repeats itself after Problem 3:
>
> sudo zypper refresh
>
> [sudo] password for root:
> Repository 'Main Update Repository' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'Fonts (openSUSE_Tumbleweed)' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'Main Repository (NON-OSS)' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'Main Repository (OSS)' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'google-chrome' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'Packman' is up to date.
>
> Repository 'Open H.264 Codec (openSUSE Tumbleweed)' is up to date.
>
> All repositories have been refreshed.
>
> sudo zypper dup
>
> Loading repository data...
> Reading installed packages...
> Warning: You are about to do a distribution upgrade with all enabled
> repositories. Make sure these repositories are compatible before you
> continue. See 'man zypper' for more information about this command.
> Computing distribution upgrade...
>
> 3 Problems:
> Problem: 1: the to be installed phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.7.x86_64 requires
> 'vlc = 3.0.22', but this requirement cannot be provided
> not installable providers: vlc-3.0.22-1.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
>
> Problem: 2: the to be installed phonon-vlc-qt6-0.12.0-2.7.x86_64 requires
> 'vlc-noX = 3.0.22', but this requirement cannot be provided
> not installable providers:
> vlc-noX-3.0.22-1.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
>
> Problem: 3: the installed vlc-noX-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 requires
> 'libvlc5 = 3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21', but this requirement cannot be provided
> deleted providers: libvlc5-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64
>
> Problem: 1: the to be installed phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.7.x86_64 requires
> 'vlc = 3.0.22', but this requirement cannot be provided
> not installable providers: vlc-3.0.22-1.1.x86_64[download.opensuse.org-oss]
>
>   Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
>    keep obsolete phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.6.x86_64
>    keep obsolete vlc-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64
>   Solution 2: deinstallation of phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.6.x86_64
>   Solution 3: install vlc-3.0.22-1.1.x86_64 from vendor openSUSE
>    replacing vlc-3.0.21-1699.14.pm.21.x86_64 from vendor
> http://packman.links2linux.de
>   Solution 4: break phonon-vlc-qt5-0.12.0-2.7.x86_64 by ignoring some of its
> dependencies
>
> Choose from above solutions by number or skip, retry or cancel
> [1/2/3/4/s/r/c/d/?] (c):
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Hello,

I had the same problem and solved it by removing via yast 
phonon_vlc_lang  and phonon-vlc-qt6

Thereafter zypper dup worked without problem.
Regards
Philippe