vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable

[js1]

VLC from ppa for Precise depends on a package (fonts-freefont-ttf) that doesn't exist in Precise:

# cat videolan-stable-daily-precise.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu precise main

http://ppa.launchpad.net/videolan/stable-daily/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages
Package: vlc
Priority: optional
Section: video
Installed-Size: 3391
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1
Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1), vlc-plugin-pulse (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1), xdg-utils
Replaces: vlc-data (<< 1.1.5), vlc-nox (<< 2.0.2)
Suggests: videolan-doc
Provides: mp3-decoder
Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf

The correct package in Precise may be "ttf-freefont".

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and trying to help make Ubuntu better. However, it seems that you are not using a software package provided by the official Ubuntu repositories. Because of this the Ubuntu project can not support or fix your particular bug. Please report this bug to the provider of the software package. Thanks!

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[Patrick Gillespie (vermontpoet)]

Hi Logan, I'm also having this problem using the official package provided by the Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: fonts-freefont-ttf but it is not installable
       Recommends: vlc-plugin-notify (= 2.0.3+git20121005+r392-0~r42~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Unless I'm mistaken, I'm reopening the bug.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

js1, sorry for the inconvenience. The PPA packages for precise are now build by the stable-daily.precise recipe [1] instead of the stable-daily recipe. The current PPA build from the stable-daily recipe shouldn't have been uploaded to the PPA. (It was too late to abort this upload.) The next built of the stable-daily.precise recipe will fix the dependency. So please just wait for the next built.

Please file bugs of VLC against the vlc package next time. Otherwise I am not notified about the bug report.

Logan, the official vlc package and the PPA is maintained by me. A bug in the PPA package will appear in the official package sooner or later in the most cases. Therefore I appreciate bug reports in Launchpad against the PPA (as an exception to the rule that PPA bug reports against the official package are unwanted and closed).

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~videolan/+recipe/stable-daily.precise

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Patrick, you are not using the official vlc package (which is at version 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1). You are using the vlc package from the stable-daily PPA [1].

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/stable-daily

[js1 (sujiannming)]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> wrote:
> js1, sorry for the inconvenience. The PPA packages for precise are now
> build by the stable-daily.precise recipe [1] instead of the stable-daily
> recipe. The current PPA build from the stable-daily recipe shouldn't
> have been uploaded to the PPA. (It was too late to abort this upload.)
> The next built of the stable-daily.precise recipe will fix the
> dependency. So please just wait for the next built.
>
> Please file bugs of VLC against the vlc package next time. Otherwise I
> am not notified about the bug report.
>

I wanted to do that through launchpad, but it wasn't obvious how.
Sorry for my confusion. I'll look more carefully next time.

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[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

> I wanted to do that through launchpad, but it wasn't obvious how.
> Sorry for my confusion. I'll look more carefully next time.

You can directly go to the bug page of the Ubuntu package by typing [1]. The address for the vlc package is [2]. After filing a bug just against Ubuntu, you can specify the source package name by expanding the bug header.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/<package>
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc

[Patrick Gillespie (vermontpoet)]

//Patrick, you are not using the official vlc package (which is at version 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.//

OK, I wasn't aware of that. (I don't recall installing this PPA). My mistake.

[Pander (pander)]

see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/854575

[Pander (pander)]

This is also undesirable when the user would like to use the OTF fonts only and not the TTF fonts. VLC can better query font-config where to find the font needed, making it irrelevant if it is OTF or TTF and how the font files are installed.