On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:22 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <r...@remlab.net> wrote: > Hello, > > Le vendredi 18 juillet 2014, 12:52:32 Harald Sitter a écrit : >> since vlc plugins are spread across multiple packages the plugin cache >> generated at buildtime is almost always wrong > > As long as Debian does not ship any unofficial native VLC plugin, the > build-time > cache will not lack any entry.
Which could of course change today or tomorrow or the day after. >> which makes vlc load all plugins at runtime > > No. VLC only loads plugins that are absent or mismatched in the cache. As long > as the cache contains a superset of what is actually installed, VLC will not > attempt to load anything unnecessary. Peculiar that it does explode then. Because clearly it doesn't like the cache. >> which in turn can result in runtime symbol clashes > > That is one good reason to generate the cache at build time, where any problem > can be detected early on. Crashing during dpkg postinst script is much worse. || true? I fail to see how exactly the additions could make the maintainer scripts fail to be honest, other than having a broken cache-gen which surely is the sign of a much deeper problem that should not have gotten beyond build time to begin with. >> when it loads the qt4 gui in a qt5 libvlc application for example. > > That will happen only if Qt4 is not in the plugins cache. If you install the > plugins cache from a build with Qt4, it should be in. Maybe I am missing something, but the package is only built once (and that build is with Qt4), is it not? >> 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 am afraid this will create more problems than it will solve. With this > patch, there is a very real possibility that the package installation will > fail. || true solves everything HS _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
