Versioning for VLC in Lucid Universe

[Daniel Chen]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Forest Mars <forest at mnn.org> wrote:
> Taking a look at http://packages.ubunut.com/lucid/graphics/vlc it indicates
> the version there is 1.0.4.

Generally, don't rely on packages.uc to be the canonical listing. Use
LP instead:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc

> However when I install from Lucid Universe, I am seeing that it is version
> 1.0.3.
...
> Also, dpkg -l | grep vlc indicates:
> ii      libvlc2                              1.0.4-2ubuntu1
>             multimedia player and streamer library
> ii      libvlccore2                          1.0.4-2ubuntu1
>             base library for VLC and its modules
> rc      vlc                                  1.0.3-1ubuntu2
>             multimedia player and streamer

The available version of the vlc metapackage isn't actually version
1.0.3-1ubuntu2. This dpkg output simply confirms that the removed (but
not purged) version on your system is that.

You can always confirm via "apt-cache policy vlc" what /your/ system
thinks is available.

Best,
-Dan