Bug#512844: ffmpeg-debian breaks binary compatibility

[Jakub Wilk]

* Paul Gevers <paul at climbing.nl>, 2009-01-24, 16:03:
>The problem is that you are using mplayer from unstable, with ffmpeg
>from experimental. The experimental version of ffmpeg-debian creates
>libavcodec52, where your mplayer should depend on if you want to use it.
>But the ffmpeg in unstable builds/needs libavcodec51, so that is why
>mplayer depends on it. You can at this moment not mix ffmpeg from
>experimental with mplayer from unstable.
>
>Maybe ffmpeg should conflict with old versions of the libraries, ie
>Conflicts libavcodec51, libavcodec-unstripped-51 etc...
That would be a sane work-around. However, the proper fix is to bump 
libavutil soname, as its ABI have changed.

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Jakub Wilk