Chris Carlin <volk...@gmail.com> writes: > Ekiga doesn't use libavcodec directly, so just having libavcodec- > unstripped around isn't enough. >
In ubuntu, we do not want ANY applications to be built against the *unstripped* variants of libavcodec as a saftey guard. If users want to do that at home, fine, but we actually cannot do that in ubuntu because that introduces just even more confusion as we already have in this bug. First: Please have a look and understand what actually is stripped. The stripping process just removes some encoder av_register_codec calls. I cannot see how this modification can possibly affect applications building against libavcodec. If you have such an example, please show me. This means: Building against the regular libavcodec-dev package and then replacing libavcodec-unstripped-52 should produce exactly the same result as linking against an "unstripped" libavcodec-dev package. The latter btw does not exist since it would be byte-identical to the stripped version. > Instead, Ekiga's codecs are distributed as plugins built by libopal, > which has to be built against the unstripped-dev package. With the rationale above, I can assure you that the 2nd statement "has to be built against the unstripped-dev package" is plain wrong. I'm currently considering adding an alternate dependency on the -dev packages because of popular request. "Provides" is the wrong solution since it breaks versioned dependencies. But I'm still unsure if people here are just misguided because of rumor or misinformation. I still have not seen a single case where this chance is absolutely necessary beside from the convenience of not having to install the unstripped package over. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- libxxx-unstripped should also Provide libxxx https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312898 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
