Bug 223765 – libdvdnav is an uneccesary dependency in various ebuilds

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description dynamotwain 2008-05-26 22:00:23 UTC]

libdvdnav was unmaintained for a few years, and being full of bugs, a number of programs forked their own copies, no longer relying on externally provided libdvdnav headers or libraries. However, some packages still list media-libs/libdvdnav as dependencies. These packages include:

app-cdr/k9copy (since 1.0.5 or so)
media-tv/mythtv (since 0.20)

The remaining packages in portage that depend on media-libs/libdvdnav appear to actually link to the external dynamic libraries provided by libdvdnav.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2008-05-26 22:39:22 UTC]

Assigning to media-video because of libdvdnav.

> app-cdr/k9copy (since 1.0.5 or so) : CC'ing kde
> media-tv/mythtv (since 0.20)       : CC'ing cardoe and media-tv

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-06-26 20:01:05 UTC]

mythtv is fixed. thanks.

[Comment 3 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2008-06-30 02:49:07 UTC]

k9copy always included its own copy of this library, so Gentoo isn't entirely free from it, but I guess it fixes your problem. v.1.2.3-r1 with /some/ fixes in cvs. If there is a security issue with libdvdnav, please drop a comment.


Leaving it to you to resolve, it's your bug and I'm too tired to check, if k9copy is really the last offender.

[Comment 4 simon 2008-06-30 20:42:56 UTC]

What about vlc with use flag "dvd" enabled?

[Comment 5 dynamotwain 2008-06-30 23:43:40 UTC]

VLC trunk currently requires an external copy of libdvdnav (See https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/configure.ac#L2098)

However, I do not know if VLC has ever provided its own fork, and VLC's Trac interface to git doesn't appear to sport an easy way to view tagged versions of files, so I don't know about prior releases.