Add vlc in hardy backports ?

Bug #274399 reported by hhj
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Hardy Backports
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hi,

vlc is a great video player, used by many people, so it would be nice to have the latest release, at least for hardy (people who stay in hardy don't want to install a new ubuntu release every six months)

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John Dong (jdong) wrote :

If you are referring to the 0.8.6.* security fix series, this is already in progress for ubuntu-security. If you are referring to the 0.9.x releases, I am not sure if this will be possible. I was a part of the team that packaged this release for Intrepid and I'm almost confident it relies on specific newer libraries in Intrepid.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

As John pointed out, the 0.9.x series won't build on Hardy due to missing dependencies. From my build log:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy: Depends: libass-dev which is a virtual package.
                                 Depends: libdc1394-22-dev which is a virtual package.
                                 Depends: libdca-dev which is a virtual package.
                                 Depends: liblivemedia-dev (>= 2008.07.24) but it is not installable

Changed in hardy-backports:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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hhj (cb2) wrote : Re: [Bug 274399] Re: Add vlc in hardy backports ?

Thanks for these information. Howether, in the meantime, I found this:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/16/install-vlc-media-player-092-in-ubuntu/

Not tested it but it is reported to work

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Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) wrote :

Due to the chain of unwanted dependencies, I'm marking this one WONT FIX.

Changed in hardy-backports:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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