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Thanks for the link, I missed that!

I might be missing something very obvious here, but I'm not sure how to update so that the remaining checks will complete. From what I understand it fails due to a cached version of video_player_platform_interface instead of using the path-based dependency:

 Compilation failed for testPath=/b/s/w/ir/x/w/packages/packages/camera/camera/example/test/main_test.dart: ../../../video_player/video_player/lib/video_player.dart:440:34: Error: The method 'setAllowBackgroundPlayback' isn't defined for the class 'VideoPlayerPlatform'.
   - 'VideoPlayerPlatform' is from 'package:video_player_platform_interface/video_player_platform_interface.dart' ('../../../../../.pub-cache/hosted/pub.dev/video_player_platform_interface-6.3.0/lib/video_player_platform_interface.dart').
  Try correcting the name to the name of an existing method, or defining a method named 'setAllowBackgroundPlayback'.
        await _videoPlayerPlatform.setAllowBackgroundPlayback(

I can get the camera example to run locally, but only if I use direct dependencies instead of overridden dependencies.

What's the best approach here? Should I just remove the path-based dependencies for the camera example or is there another way to resolve it?

@stuartmorgan-g It looks like dependency_overrides doesn't work for transitive dependencies: https://dart.dev/tools/pub/dependencies#dependency-overrides

Only the dependency overrides in a package's own pubspec are considered during package resolution. Dependency overrides inside any depended-on packages are ignored.

@ArvidNy You should be able to fix this by manually adding the rest of the dependencies to the failing plugins. They should look like:

dependency_overrides:
  video_player: {path: ../../../../packages/video_player/video_player}
  video_player_android: {path: ../../../../packages/video_player/video_player_android}
  video_player_avfoundation: {path: ../../../../packages/video_player/video_player_avfoundation}
  video_player_platform_interface: {path: ../../../../packages/video_player/video_player_platform_interface}
  video_player_web: {path: ../../../../packages/video_player/video_player_web}

Let me know if that works.

@stuartmorgan-g It looks like dependency_overrides doesn't work for transitive dependencies

Yes, the tooling should account for that though.

@ArvidNy You should be able to fix this by manually adding the rest of the dependencies to the failing plugins.

That shouldn't have been necessary. What command did you run, exactly, to generate what's in the PR now?

This is the command I ran:

 dart run script/tool/bin/flutter_plugin_tools.dart make-deps-path-based --target-dependencies=video_player_platform_interface,video_player_android,video_player_avfoundation,video_player,video_player_web

Oh, and manually adding the rest of the dependency overrides does seem to resolve the issue, at least locally. So I can push that to resolve the PR tests if there's no other obvious fix for it.

I see the issue; I've filed flutter/flutter#168538 to track it.

The best solution in the context of this PR is to revert all the non-video_player* package changes.

OK, I think it's finally ready for a re-review now.