Source: vlc Version: 2.1.2-2~bpo70+2 Severity: serious Backport of vlc to wheezy uses libsmbclient from samba4, which means that when installing vlc on a wheezy system, whole samba suite has to be upgraded too if samba is installed.
This is because vlc runtime-depends on libsmbclient >= the one it was built against, but samba, due to its nature, requires exact version of libsmbclient. So, in particular, samba3 requires libsmbclient from samba3. So when installing vlc, it automatically upgrades libsmbclient, which triggers upgrading whole samba. But upgrading samba from version 3 to version 4 is a major step, and should not be pefrormed as a side-step of some unrelated software. It is more: vlc ises jut a "tiny bit" of samba, yet pulls whole new major version of it. I see the changelog entry in vlc: 2.1.2-2~bpo70+1: Tighten build dependencies on gettext, libsmbclient (for pkg-config file) and libav9 I see there's no pkg-config file in version of libsmbclient-dev in wheezy, but since I don't know vlc sources and build process much I don't know how difficult it will be to build vlc with wheezy version of libsmbclient. Please consider doing so and allowing using samba from wheezy together with vlc from bpo. Thanks! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
