Package: libass5 Version: 0.13.6-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
While using libass5 in combination with various media players I encountered a bug which rendered mpv and totem completely useless and disabled most subtitles in vlc: "ffmpeg: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libass.so.5: undefined symbol: FT_Outline_EmboldenXY" & "Codec not supported: VLC could not decode the format "ssa " (SubStation Alpha subtitles)" However, I could fix it by simply updating the package manually with a checkinstall package from the git https://github.com/libass/libass/ and linking the libraries manually to the newer versions so ffmpeg could find them: "sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libass.so.9 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libass.so.5 sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libass.so.9.0.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/libass.so.5.3.2" So please consider updating the package to the latest version, because according to this thread http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=131764 I'm not the only one with the package. I describe my solution there at the end too. Cheers! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information