[SRU] Update to bugfix release 3.0.4 in Bionic

Hello Simon, or anyone else affected,

Accepted vlc into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/3.0.4-1ubuntu0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I incorrectly accepted this into -proposed for Ubuntu 18.04. This adds a build dependency on libspatialaudio-dev which is not available in Ubuntu 18.04 additionally the package version number for Ubuntu 18.04 is greater than the version number in Ubuntu 18.10. Due to both of these reasons I'm setting the bug to verification-failed.

The version in cosmic gained a build dependency on libspatialaudio-dev and new versions will gain more build dependencies in the future (libaom comes to my mind for AV1 support). So instead of rebuilding the version in cosmic for bionic, I'd recommend to simply merge the new upstream release into the current version in bionic. That's what we do for updates to vlc in Debian stable.

My sincere apologies for the delay on this; uploaded another to the queue.

Hello Simon, or anyone else affected,

Accepted vlc into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

I saw the request to test yesterday on community-hub, I was using 18.04 so updated using -proposed and started vlc playing yesterday (selecting lots of different files, and skipping next if the video is long, or I think it's been playing awhile..

No issues at all yesterday, though I don't know what qualifies as "a decent amount of time"

guiverc@d960-ubu:~$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2

This morning I woke my suspended box up and it continued playing. I tried to move the slider back, it would move but continue playing as if I'd not asked it anything (the slider returning to where it was, or slightly to right as it kept playing). Ctrl-left wouldn't change the playing position (only change the slider briefly).

This behavior could be normal (pre-change); I fixed with a <P> (previous), <N> (next) then re-position to where I want it and normal behavior returned, which I know I've done before! - so it's possible I'm noting normal behavior. Otherwise I've had no issues over ~5 hours of use. Unless I note anything more to this, at end of today it'll be another 8-10 hours of play

(I'll let someone else decide if that's a decent amount of time - i'm purposely trying to pick strange video files, lots of short youtube-dls, or as many different files as I come across. Of course I'm not watching it all the time...)

In the last comment (#6) I mentioned how on waking from suspend (in the morning), vlc resumed play but noted it would not respond to attempts to put the video play back to an earlier section (using slider or ctrl-left).

Today on wake it happily complied. A different video of course, very likely this is higher-resolution, but outside of the refusing-to-jump-earlier (which I believe it's done before); I've noticed no abormal issues in 14+ hours of play (fullscreen, window)..

The verification of the Stable Release Update for vlc has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2

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vlc (3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (LP: #1790738).

 -- Simon Quigley <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Oct 2018 20:20:32 -0500