Bug 1173736

Summary:	GLIBC-2.26 used by OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 is old and not letting recent packages install
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Anatomist Reddy <anatomist.noelectrons>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	anatomist.noelectrons, stuart
Version:	Leap 15.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	64bit
OS:	Other
See Also:	https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173734
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Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	No
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Anatomist Reddy 2020-07-05 20:27:17 UTC

Hi,
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 seems to come with and compile its packages against GLIBC-2.26 which is release in August 2017. Looks like many packages available from third parties have been using later versions of GLIBC (>= 2.29). One particular package I encountered a problem with is 'vlc media player' provided by OpenSUSE repos. It installs fine, but requires 'vlc-codecs' to play many media types. When I try to install 'vlc-codecs' provided by 'VideoLanClient' or in the 'packman' repositories, they are using 'vlc-codecs (3.0.11-4.2)' which was compiled against GLIBC-2.29 and complains of the dependency. This is but one example of a package that doesn't work properly (that worked well in Leap 15.1). There seems to many other packages like this. This bug report might be similar to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173734 but for a different package. This same issue is also causing 'gstreamer' when trying to use 'libav' codecs. If you need further information on this, please let me know.
Thank you,
Reddy

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2020-08-20 13:59:43 UTC

glibc cannot be updated without breaking a lot of packages.