[SRU] gnome-mplayer indirectly conflicts with mplayer2

[Chow Loong Jin]

Under mplayer2, we have:-
Provides: mplayer
Replaces: mplayer
Conflicts: mplayer.

Under gnome-mplayer, we have:-
Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0~) | mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0~)

As a result of the versioned dependency, mplayer2 does not fulfil mplayer (>= 1.0~), and installing mplayer2 forces mplayer and subsequently gnome-mplayer to be removed, and vice versa.

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

It looks like this was fixed in 1.0.4-2.

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

@hyperair
Thanks for the help on this. I don't know how do you want to address this issue in Oneiric, but 1.0.4-2 seems to move to pulseaudio which we want to avoid on Lubuntu. I'll test an update, and I can do the SRU if you want (the gnome-power-manager fix may also be suitable for the SRU).

[Chow Loong Jin (hyperair)]

On 18/10/2011 05:49, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> @hyperair Thanks for the help on this. I don't know how do you want to
> address this issue in Oneiric, but 1.0.4-2 seems to move to pulseaudio which
> we want to avoid on Lubuntu. I'll test an update, and I can do the SRU if you
> want (the gnome-power-manager fix may also be suitable for the SRU).
>

No problem. I wasn't actually sure whether the gnome-power-manager fix was
suitable for the SRU, so I skipped it -- I haven't noticed any issues with my
screensaver coming on while playing videos, so I didn't think it was necessary
as an SRU, but if you can find a test case for it, sure, why not?

I've attached a debdiff of what I've already uploaded to -proposed so you can
build upon it if you're going to do the g-p-m SRU.

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Chow, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-mplayer into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Confirmed that the package in proposed fix the problem. I'm able to install mplayer2 and keep gnome-mplayer installed. Thanks :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-mplayer - 1.0.4-1ubuntu0.1

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gnome-mplayer (1.0.4-1ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Add mplayer2 as alternative Depends (Closes: #638280, LP: #876679).
    Remove mplayer-nogui from list. Backported from 1.0.4-2.
 -- Chow Loong Jin <email address hidden> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:31:04 +0800