Bug#823589: mplayer: Please create dummy package for upgrades from jessie

[Adam Conrad]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.3.0-1
Followup-For: Bug #823589
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch



In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:

  * Add mplayer2 transitional package to fix upgrades (LP: #1580268)

So, I noticed after fixing this in Ubuntu that you fixed it in Debian
git 48 hours ago.  Your fix is, however, incomplete (notice the extra
parts of my diff that aren't included in your commit, where I version
the Replaces, and change the Conflict to a versioned Breaks).

It would be lovely if you swapped in my fix for yours (at least the
missing bits).

... Adam

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers yakkety
  APT policy: (500, 'yakkety')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-21-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
diff -Nru mplayer-1.3.0/debian/control mplayer-1.3.0/debian/control
--- mplayer-1.3.0/debian/control	2016-04-17 13:14:24.0 -0600
+++ mplayer-1.3.0/debian/control	2016-05-10 11:57:44.0 -0600
@@ -147,6 +147,16 @@
  (1 or 2 passes), libavcodec, PCM/MP3/VBRMP3 audio. Also has stream
  copying and video resizing capabilities.
 
+# This can be dropped after yakkety/stretch release, whichever is later:
+Package: mplayer2
+Section: oldlibs
+Architecture: all
+Multi-Arch: foreign
+Depends: mplayer (>= 2:1.2)
+Description: transitional package from mplayer2 to mplayer
+ This package exists to upgrade mplayer2 users to mplayer; it can be safely
+ removed once the upgrade has been performed.
+
 Package: mplayer
 Architecture: any
 Multi-Arch: foreign
@@ -163,9 +173,9 @@
  mencoder (<< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2),
  mplayer-doc (<< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2),
  mplayer-nogui (<< 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-2),
- mplayer2
-Conflicts:
- mplayer2
+ mplayer2 (<< 2:1.2)
+Breaks:
+ mplayer2 (<< 2:1.2)
 Description: movie player for Unix-like systems
  MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO,
  ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files,
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Bug#823589: mplayer: Please create dummy package for upgrades from jessie

[Santiago Vila]

Package: mplayer
Version: 2:1.2.1-1+b1

Dear maintainer:

It is customary that packages changing names should provide a dummy
package with the old name so that an upgrade makes the new package to
be installed smoothly and automatically. Smooth upgrades have always
been one of Debian's goals.

I know that this case is not exactly a "package rename" in strict
sense but a different codebase / different fork, but for most purposes
we can assume that whoever had mplayer2 installed in jessie will want
to have mplayer installed in stretch.

Ok, there may be little differences (I don't know the details), and it
is possible that mplayer is not a 100% drop-in replacement of mplayer2,
but that's what the Release Notes (for stretch) are for.

Thanks.

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