On Wednesday 11 July 2012 10:20:37 Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Packages in Debian should always have alternative dependdencied on > both, i.e. "libavcodec53| libavcodec-extra-53". Do you have packages > from other repositories installed?
The problem appears to have been that I had not succeeded in removing all Marillat's packages, despite trying to make sure I had before reporting the bug. In particular, I still had vlc packages installed which were preventing phonon-backend-vlc from upgrading. After reinstalling all the vlc (and xine) related packages I was able to install libavcodec-extra-53. I still think it would have been easier if libavcodec-extra-53 had either Provides: libavcodec53 or, even better, really was just extras without replacing libavcodec53 at all. However, I am sure you have good reasons for this packaging. _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers