Hi,
you receive this mail because one of your packages depends of
libflac4. See the list below. I've decided to send this mail after
talking to the maintainer of one of these packages and learning that
he wasn't aware of the issue. I hope you find this information useful.
Recently, flac 1.1.1-1 was uploaded to unstable. This version of FLAC
introduced a new soname for the library, namely, libFLAC.so.6; as
usual, this library was to be provided in a new package libflac6, but
unfortunately a packaging error made libFLAC.so.6 end up in the
libflac4=1.1.1-1 package.
This was promptly corrected by the flac maintainer, and all is fixed
in the 1.1.1-3 version (picked by today's dinstall). However, the
unfortunate incident has left an unusable version of libflac4 package
in the archive.
If libflac4 1.1.1-1 hadn't existed ever (as it was intended), there
would have been no breakage and packages could have been recompiled at
a slow pace since libflac4 1.1.0-11 would have remained in the archive
for a while. This has not been the case, and any user who installed
the bogus 1.1.1-1 libflac4 package is left with unusable applications.
What to do?
===========
Please consider uploading a new version of your package in the
following days. This is specially important in the case of packages
that are the cause of indirect dependencies on libflac4 (e.g.,
libtunepimp).
libflac4 (which is, anyway, broken) will be removed from the archive
soon, and that will immediately warrant an serious bug on the
affected packages. Consider uploading ASAP, with a proper versioned
build-dependency on libflac-dev (>= 1.1.1-3), to help our users and
other packagers.
(As for users, easiest fix is to fetch libflac4 1.1.0-11 from any
mirror --it is in testing--, and install and hold that. There is an
other workaround being spread, involving symlinks, but it _may_
break some apps.)
Caveats
=======
If you're on the attached list, but do also build-depend on any
binary package provided by a source package on the list too, you
must wait for the build-depended package to be uploaded first, and
should properly version that Build-Dependency too.
This will be certainly be the case for packages marked with 'No' in
the 'B-D on libflac-dev' column, though that is no necessary
condition (e.g., kdemultimedia depend both in libflac-dev *and*
libtunepimp2-dev).
Thanks.
List of affected packages
=========================
Package Source B-D on libflac-dev
--------------------------------------------------------
alsaplayer-common alsaplayer Yes
arson arson Yes
cynthiune.app cynthiune.app Yes
easytag easytag Yes
gstreamer0.8-flac gst-plugins0.8 Yes
gstreamer-flac gst-plugins Yes
hydrogen hydrogen Yes
kdemult.-kio-plugins kdemultimedia Yes
akode kdemultimedia Yes
juk kdemultimedia Yes
LA-mod-musicindex(*) LA-mod-musicindex Yes
LA-mod-musicindex LA-mod-musicindex Yes
libsdl-sound1.2 libsdl-sound1.2 Yes
libtunepimp1 libtunepimp Yes
libtunepimp2 libtunepimp Yes
libtunepimp-bin libtunepimp Yes
mpd mpd Yes
muine muine Yes
rezound rezound Yes
scummvm scummvm Yes
timidity timidity Yes
vlc vlc Yes
amarok amarok No
kwave kwave No
vorbis-tools vorbis-tools No
(*) LA stands for 'libapache'
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is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.
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