FS#57773 - [ffmpeg2.8] Today's upgrade of x265 breaks ffmpeg dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Britt Yazel (brittyazel) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 16:53 GMT
Last edited by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 21:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 7
Private No

Details

Description:
Upon install updates today, I was greeted with:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: ffmpeg2.8: installing x265 (2.7-1) breaks dependency 'libx265.so=146-64'

It seems that ffmpeg is requiring now an older version of x265 than exists in the package repos.
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Closed by  Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Friday, 09 March 2018, 21:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  2.8.13-7 temporarily readded.
Comment by Britt Yazel (brittyazel) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 16:58 GMT
Strange, so it was a weird cyclic dependency issue. VLC couldn't update because the old version required a package named ffmpeg2.8 (that doesn't seem to exist anymore), x265 couldn't update because that ffmpeg2.8 package required the older x265 for support, and I couldn't remove ffmpeg2.8 because the previous package of vlc (still installed) required it. The solution was to:

manually update VLC first --> manually remove ffmpeg2.8 --> then the updates would work as planned.
Comment by yurick gomes (yurick.gomes) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 21:16 GMT
I bypassed the error with 2 steps:
1 - sudo pacman -Rs vlc
2 - sudo pacman -S vlc

Everything is ok now
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Friday, 09 March 2018, 21:30 GMT
ffmpeg2.8 has temporarily been readded for a more fluent transition for packages supported by our repositories. It will be killed soon (~1month maybe slightly longer).
ffmpeg2.8 should be removed after upgrading to avoid future problems, it doesn't have any supported packages depending on it.

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