Bug#818454: firefox: Incorrect build dependency for libvpx

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:59:31AM +0600, Sergey Korobitsin wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 45.0-1
> Severity: does-not-build
> Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> yesterday I tried to build a fresh new firefox
> from sid for my jessie box and build failed with 
> some error in libvpx library from jessie (1.3.0-3).
> 
> I took recent libvpx package from sid (1.5.0-2),
> built and installed it, and then successfully built
> firefox. Please consider correcting this build dependency.

This sounds like this could be related to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248335

Can you try the patch from there against libvpx from jessie?

(Relatedly, do you know there are jessie backports available on
http://mozilla.debian.net?)

Mike