Upgrade 2015-07-21

[pavroo]

Today's upgrade make some changes in the system, so be carreful with that:

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Packages to be removed:
  audacity avidemux avidemux-plugins avidemux-qt browser-plugin-vlc dvd95
  gnome-control-center gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly kadu libasound2-plugins:i386 libcheese-gtk23
  libcheese7 libopencv-calib3d2.4 libopencv-contrib2.4 libopencv-features2d2.4
  libopencv-highgui2.4 libopencv-legacy2.4 libopencv-objdetect2.4 mencoder
  minitube ogmrip phonon phonon-backend-vlc skype:i386 twolame vlc vlc-nox
  vlc-plugin-notify
New packages to be installed:
  libavresample-ffmpeg2 libavresample-ffmpeg2:i386 libavutil-ffmpeg54
  libavutil-ffmpeg54:i386 libswresample-ffmpeg1 libswscale-ffmpeg3
Hold packages:
  libasound2-plugins
Packages to be upgraded:
  libopencv-core2.4 libopencv-flann2.4 libopencv-imgproc2.4 libopencv-ml2.4
  libopencv-video2.4

As Debian switch from libav to ffmpeg, it can removes some packages, depends on what you have installed now.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/07/msg00001.html
Simply 'apt-get upgrade' could be better than 'apt-get dist-upgrade' waitng for all the changes will be done.

[Slyvester]

Hi Pavroo,

Thanks for warning us about this update. That's funny because I just installed  : "ffmulticonverter 1.6 Stable" on one of my other Linux distributions (wattOS R-9 based on Ubuntu 14.04).
I used this thread to do so : http://askubuntu.com/questions/457685/i-cannot-find-the-ff-multi-converter-for-ubuntu-14-04-lts. Now I know I've got to be careful when upgrading wattOS !
I was planning on installing that mighty video-converter "ffmulticonverter 1.6 Stable" on my SparkyLinux distro too because it's got more tweaks than Avidemus. Wonder if this is a good idea because SparkyLinux remains my favourite distribution among all others ?

[pavroo]

I have upgraded one of my Sparky installations today and...

To fix that problem, you should do:
Remove 'libasound2-plugins' package.

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sudo apt-get remove libasound2-plugins
sudo apt-get autoremove
If you have 'libasound2-plugins:i386' package installed on 64bit system - remove it too.
This operation will remove skype (only) as well if skype is installed.

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sudo apt-get remove libasound2-plugins:i386
sudo apt-get autoremove

After that, I made standard full upgrade and everything looks ok:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Edit
It removes pulseaudio and pavucontrol so install them back after.

Edit 2
Looks like 'skype' can't be installed back - it depends on 'libasound2-plugins' which can't be installed - broken dependencies.