Demote vlc and rdepends to multiverse

Bug #206912 reported by William Grant
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
freeplayer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
mythbuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
vlc (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

VLC needs to be demoted to multiverse (preferably in previous releases
too, but I can't see that happening). It (for reasons of which I am not
aware) includes the source packages for x264 and faad2 in the modified
.orig.tar.gz. Both of those sources are themselves in multiverse.

  affects ubuntu/vlc
  subscribe ubuntu-archive
  status confirmed
  importance medium

--
William Grant

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Matti Lindell (mlind) wrote :

faad2 source tree should be removed from the vlc source package and b-depends on libfaad-dev added instead. faad2 licensing changed recently and all faad2 packages are now in universe. Debian vlc maintainers have already made the change (see also http://bugs.debian.org/451948). x264 still remains problematic, so either demoting vlc to multiverse or drop x264 support should be considered.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Hm, I can't just move it to multiverse, since universe depends on it:

-- hardy/universe i386 deps on vlc:
freeplayer
mozilla-plugin-vlc
mythbuntu-live
vlc-plugin-alsa
wxvlc
-- hardy/universe i386 deps on vlc-nox:
mozilla-plugin-vlc
vlc
vlc-plugin-arts
vlc-plugin-esd
vlc-plugin-ggi
vlc-plugin-glide
vlc-plugin-pulse
vlc-plugin-sdl
vlc-plugin-svgalib

so it would be better to drop the non-free bits for Hardy.

Changed in vlc:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

freeplayer and mythbuntu-live are the only recursive rdepends not produced by the vlc source. mythbuntu-live should be in multiverse anyway (MythTV is all in multiverse), and freeplayer can go with it. Demote all three, please.

Changed in vlc:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in mythbuntu-meta:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in freeplayer:
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

mythbuntu-live's source (mythbuntu-meta) is also in multiverse, so it shouldn't be possible to have a binary in universe...

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

Martin those are all VLC related or VLC produced. I think those should all be shoved into multiverse.

"removing non-free bits" would involve disabling almost all encoding capabilities of VLC, which is

(1) Illogical because some of the VLC-dependent packages are that way because they want to use its encoder
(2) Undesirable because the encoder is one of the best things that makes VLC what it is.

Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO Override Component to: 'multiverse'
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer - 20070531+dfsg.1-1/multiverse/sound' source overridden
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy sparc
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy powerpc
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy hppa
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy i386
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy ia64
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy powerpc
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'freeplayer-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy sparc
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy i386
2008-04-15 00:57:26 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy ia64
2008-04-15 00:57:27 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 00:57:27 INFO 'fbx-playlist-20070531+dfsg.1-1/universe/sound/EXTRA' binary overridden in hardy hppa
2008-04-15 00:57:27 INFO Commiting transaction, changes will be visible after next publisher run.

Changed in freeplayer:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO Override Component to: 'multiverse'
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-meta - 0.20/multiverse/metapackages' remained the same
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-desktop-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy i386
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-live-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy i386
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-desktop-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy powerpc
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-live-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy powerpc
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-desktop-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO 'mythbuntu-live-0.20/universe/metapackages/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 00:57:53 INFO Commiting transaction, changes will be visible after next publisher run.

Changed in mythbuntu-meta:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :
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2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO Override Component to: 'multiverse'
2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO 'vlc - 0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/multiverse/graphics' source overridden
2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO 'vlc-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO 'vlc-nox-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO 'libvlc0-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:03 INFO 'libvlc0-dev-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-esd-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-pulse-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-sdl-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-ggi-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-arts-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'mozilla-plugin-vlc-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy lpia
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-nox-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/net/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'libvlc0-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/libs/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'libvlc0-dev-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/libdevel/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-esd-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-pulse-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-sdl-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-ggi-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'vlc-plugin-arts-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/universe/graphics/OPTIONAL' binary overridden in hardy amd64
2008-04-15 01:02:04 INFO 'mozilla-plugin-vlc-0.8.6.release.e+x264svn20071224+faad2.6.1-0ubuntu2/u...

Changed in vlc:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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