Here is a debdiff with the patch provided on the Debian BTS. It doesn't ftbfs anymore, and avifile-player still starts without problem. Unfortunately, I don't have some movies to test if it can still play.
** Attachment added: "proposed debdiff (2)" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6929608/debdiff2.txt -- [UNMETDEPS] libavifile-0.7c2 has unmet dependencies https://launchpad.net/bugs/95405 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
