On 2026-02-07 13:02:24 +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi, > > TL;DR: Upgrade to kodi 22.x and drop libpostproc-dev from B-D. > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:39:43PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > During a test rebuild for the transition to ffmpeg 8.0, kodi failed > > to build. Beyond API changes, ffmpeg 8.0 also removed libpostproc > > which results in BD-Uninstallable packages. > > The build log feels a bit unclear about this as the old libpostproc-dev > is still present and it looks as if its dependency on libavutil were the > problem. Likewise, dose flags libavutil-dev as the problematic package: > > https://qa.debian.org/dose/debcheck/src_unstable_main/latest/packages/kodi.html > > I suggest filing a binary RM bug for libpostproc-dev to improve the > failure mode here.
This is now #1127726. Cheers > > I agree that the real problem here is Build-Depends: libpostproc-dev. So > what happens if one drops that? > > | -- FFmpeg 7.0.0 not found, falling back to internal build > > An then it attempts to download FFmpeg 7.x, which tends to fail as > sbuild disables network by default. > > We're not alone and FreeBSD also happens to have run into this problem. > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=292609 > > It seems like a particular version of kodi is bound to a particular > major version of ffmpeg and for kodi 21.x that's not ffmpeg 8.x. FreeBSD > opted for packaging a kodi 22.x pre-release. That probably is the most > sensible way to go here. > > Helmut > -- Sebastian Ramacher
