Upgrade Trouble

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Hi Reinhard,
>
> thanks for bringing this issue up upstream!
>
> Am 28.11.2009 22:20, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>> Is my analysis correct? If yes, you can imagine that the shown testcase
>> is exactly what happens in a distro setting. Media players have been
>> built against FFmpeg 0.5, and upgrading FFmpeg packages will change the
>> system in a very similar way as described here. How can the problem
>> described in my mail avoided in an *elegant* way?
>
> well, I think the most elegant way would be to introduce symbol
> versioning upstream.

How would that work in detail?

> As distributors, we can still add Breaks: against
> the previous library package in the new library package.

yes, but this will remove all applications that are linked against
ffmpeg 0.5 and are not updated yet.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4