Bug#595241: mencoder: symbol codec_wav_tags, version LIBAVFORMAT_52 not defined in file libavformat.so.52

[Reinhard Tartler]

severity important 536885
severity important 588240
forcemerge 588240 592710 592704 591349 579994 595241 536885
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 13:15:47 (CEST), Tom Parker wrote:

> Package: libavformat52
> Version: 4:0.6-2
> Severity: important
>
> With mencoder 2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 (current testing/unstable) I get
>
> mencoder: relocation error: mencoder: symbol codec_wav_tags, version LIBAVFORMAT_52 not defined in file libavformat.so.52 with link time reference
>
> Installing 2:1.0~rc4~try1.dsfg1-1 (current experimental) fixes this

Yes, the problem is that the symbol codec_wav_tags was an internal
symbol and not supposed to be used outside of libavformat.
Unfortunately, mplayer used it nevertheless.

This issue has been reported now a number of times. Perhaps we should
just add a "Breaks" relationship on libavcodec like this:

Package: libavformat52
Breaks: mplayer (<< 1.0~rc4)

This should force the mplayer package to be upgraded when installing
ffmpeg 0.6.
 
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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4