edubuntu-desktop installs ffmpeg which depends on libavcodec52 but is not on install media

[Steve Beattie]

The edubuntu jaunty addon release candidate is not self-contained; it includes ffmpeg which depends on libavcodec52, which is not located on the edubuntu iso image. (To be explicit, the dependency chain is edubuntu-desktop -> ubuntu-edu-{secondary,tertiary} -> kino -> ffmpeg -> libavcodec52

ubuntu@ejj-ia32:~$ cat /media/cdrom/.disk/info
Edubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Alpha i386 Binary-1 (20090420)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MediaBuild: Edubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Alpha i386 Binary-1 (20090420)
Package: edubuntu-desktop 1.69
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: edubuntu-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

ubuntu/kubuntu DVDs and ubuntustudio are also affected by this.

There are three options:

- unseed kino; removes functionality from the ISOs that was present in previous releases
- upload kino, dropping the Recommends: to a Suggests; appears to be incorrect in the strict sense according to the definitions of these fields, given Debian bug #457988
- leave the images as-is, where ffmpeg is on the ISOs but will only be successfully installable if the network is available; violates the invariant that installing from ISO gives the same results as installing from network.

None of these options are great, but we have to pick one.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

My personal preference is to unseed kino. With either option 1 or 2, people need the network to get a working application, and I'd rather have an installation of kino actually work, than to install "crippled" software by default which makes it nonobvious how to install the missing bits.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I concur with Martin; unseeding kino rather than neutering it seems like the best option at this spoint.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package edubuntu-meta - 1.70

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edubuntu-meta (1.70) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Removed kino from ubuntu-edu-secondary, ubuntu-edu-tertiary.
    LP: #364440.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:00:54 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntustudio-meta - 0.51

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ubuntustudio-meta (0.51) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Refreshed dependencies
  * Removed ffmpeg from video (LP: #364440)
  * Removed ffmpeg2theora from video
  * Removed kino from video [amd64 armel hppa ia64 lpia powerpc sparc]
  * Removed usplash from desktop [hppa ia64]

 -- Luke Yelavich <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:21:55 +1000