On Tuesday 08 of January 2013 21:41:30 David Hare wrote:
Deb-multimedia has a history of conflict with official Debian packages. Stuff gets pulled in which breaks official packages, notable vlc. You should at least never dist-upgrade with that repo enabled. We all use it sometimes though, just watch out.
I don't know much about libxine2* but did notice that xine-ui (maybe also other xine-orientated packages) depends on it. Seems it can coexist for now but maybe libxine1* will disappear from sid sooner than later. If kaffeine can be built against libxine2* that might avoid problems later.
On my (probably broken) machine with Wheezy I tested both libxine from deb-multimedia, as well as from Wheezy. With both, I had a problem. Same with libxine1 and with libxine2.
In Quantal I successfully tested everything with libxine2 - amarok, kaffeine and KMPlayer. So nothing should prevent the use of libxine2.
Slavek --