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gpac depends on libavcodec51, should depend on libavcodec51 | libavcodec-unstripped-51

Asked by Halfwalker on 2008-12-10

The package libavcodec-unstripped-51 provides a superset of the codecs etc that are in libavcodec51. The unstripped one from multiverse is usually preferable ...

The problem is that package gpac (and others) have requirements for just libavcodec51. If you try to install gpac, it insists on removing libavcodec-unstripped-51 and replacing with libavcodec51. Same problem is referenced in bug #304887 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/304887) for VLC.

What is the cleanest (correct) way around this, to make sure that the unstripped version is installed and kept, but other packages will also install and update in the future cleanly ?

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Solved by:: Dominik Stadler

Solved:: 2009-01-08

Last query:: 2009-01-08

Last reply:: 2009-01-08

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said on 2008-12-26:

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Halfwalker (deano-launchpad) said on 2008-12-26:

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Perhaps libavcodec-unstripped-51 shouldn't be a CONFLICTS with libsvcodec51 ... It can be a REPLACES. There are a bunch of packages that depend on libavcodec51 that can't be installed if you want the extra functionality from the unstripped on.