Control: tags -1 pending Hi Harald
On 2014-07-18 12:52:32, Harald Sitter wrote: > Package: vlc > Version: 2.1.4-1 > > since vlc plugins are spread across multiple packages the plugin cache > generated at buildtime is almost always wrong which makes vlc load all > plugins at runtime which in turn can result in runtime symbol clashes > when it loads the qt4 gui in a qt5 libvlc application for example. > > this was reported against ubuntu > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1328466 > > and videolan (who pointed out that this is mostly a distro issue) > https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9807 > > and numerous bug reports against KDE because it makes > phonon-backend-vlc fall flat on the face when run against a bogus > cache > > attached you should fine a patch which resolves this problem by > a) not installing the buildtime cache > b) fully implementing trigger capability by having postinst refresh the cache > c) have prerm drop the runtime cache so the dirs can be cleaned up > properly by dpkg I have pushed some work for this based on your patch to the experimental branch. It's not going to make its way into jessie, but after the release I plan to upload the fix rather early in the release cycle so that we can make sure that it doesn't introduce any other issues. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
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