[SCM] vlc/master: Disable libtar support (Closes: #737534)

siretart at users.alioth.debian.org siretart at users.alioth.debian.org
Sun Aug 17 01:33:31 UTC 2014


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit f5a7c2e3dc3b0427556d754102dddce1be824258
Author: Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de>
Date:   Sat Aug 16 19:48:41 2014 -0400

    Disable libtar support (Closes: #737534)
    
    According to j-b (upstream) most skins are .zip files only, for which
    libtar isn't used. VLC intents to use libarchive in the future for this,
    which has less security implications

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 0df7430..1dd0819 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ Build-Depends: autopoint,
                libssh2-1-dev,
                libswscale-dev (>= 4:0.6) | libswscale-ffmpeg-dev,
                libtag1-dev (>= 1.6.1),
-               libtar-dev,
                libtheora-dev (>= 1.0),
                libtwolame-dev (>= 0.3.8),
                libudev-dev [linux-any],
diff --git a/debian/source_vlc.py b/debian/source_vlc.py
index 9947364..dba3fc4 100644
--- a/debian/source_vlc.py
+++ b/debian/source_vlc.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ def add_info(report):
 		"libqtgui4",
 		"libsdl-image1.2",
 		"libsdl1.2debian",
-		"libtar",
 		"libx11-6",
 		"libx264-85",
 		"libxcb-keysyms1",

-- 
VLC media player packaging



More information about the pkg-multimedia-commits mailing list