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

[Dominik Stadler]

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 ?

[Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler)]

Converted from questoin, this is a similar issue as Bug 289600 which handles libavformat52

[Günter (guenter-grodotzki)]

same with libavcodec-dev

[Martin Jackson (mhjacks)]

the last release of gpac fixes this, shouldn't this be marked as a dup of Bug 289600 and marked "Fix Released"?

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

gpac now depends on libavcodec52 (>= 3:0.svn20081101-1) | libavcodec-unstripped-52 (>= 3:0.svn20081101-1)