Produce mplayer2 transitional package for upgrades
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
mplayer (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Adam Conrad | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Adam Conrad |
Bug Description
[ SRU Justification ]
In the Xenial cycle, mplayer2 was dropped and mplayer reintroduced. On upgrade from wily to xenial (I didn't notice until yakkety), mplayer2 is left installed, rather than the sidegrade being done, leaving people with unsupported software installed. This should be resolved with a transitional package for upgrades.
[ Test Case ]
Ensure that a wily->xenial upgrade with mplayer2 installed gets us mplayer instead and makes mplayer2 autoremovable via apt.
[ Regression Potential ]
mplayer+ffmpeg is generally less broken than mplayer2+libav was, so there's little chance of regression, and moving people to software that might actually get future uploads and fixes seems sane.
description: | updated |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Conrad (adconrad) |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Conrad (adconrad) |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in mplayer (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
This bug was fixed in the package mplayer - 2:1.3.0-1ubuntu1
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mplayer (2:1.3.0-1ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium
* Add mplayer2 transitional package to fix upgrades (LP: #1580268)
-- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Tue, 10 May 2016 11:19:04 -0600