Remove libavutil-extra-49 from maverick (multiverse)

[Anders Kaseorg]

Due to an incorrect merge (bug 587424), libavutil-extra-49 in maverick is an empty package. The fixed version also had its soname bumped, so libavutil-extra-50 is fine, but there are still 61 binary packages from 50 source packages that depend on libavutil49 | libavutil-extra-49, and it will be a long time before they all get rebuilt.

Please remove libavutil-extra-49 from maverick. This will force those dependencies to be satisfied by libavutil49, and avoid linker errors from missing libavutil.so.49.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

This will also prevent something like devede from being installed and thereby breaking other apps that depend on libavutil49
(devede is incorrectly configured to only use the extra version

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

FYI: this is a normal NBS job, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NBS for more information.

the fact that libavutil-extra-49 is broken is unfortunate. the correct fix is to rebuild all packages listed here: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/NBS/libavutil49

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

But we don’t need to wait for all the libavutil49 rdeps to be rebuilt before removing libavutil-extra-49. Those dependencies can be satisfied by libavutil49 instead. Since maverick’s libavutil-extra-49 is completely broken—it is literally an empty package except for /usr/share/doc—libavutil49 is the _only_ package that can legitimately satisfy those dependencies. This is why I suggest libavutil-extra-49 should be removed now, rather than waiting for the automatic NBS process.

(If we don’t want to remove the package entirely, an alternate solution would be to replace maverick’s libavutil-extra-49 with the binary package from lucid.)