Bug#611579: libavformat52: broke ABI without SONAME change

[Adam D. Barratt]

user release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
usertag 611579 + squeeze-can-defer
tag 611579 + squeeze-ignore
thanks

On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 06:54 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 23:05:33 (CET), Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
> > Package: libavformat52
> > Version: 4:0.6.1-2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: 8
> >
> > user at host:~ $ gmplayer
> > gmplayer: relocation error: gmplayer: symbol codec_wav_tags, version LIBAVFORMAT_52 not defined in file libavformat.so.52 with link time reference
> > user at host:~ $ dpkg -l mplayer-gui
> > ii  mplayer-gui                  2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1     movie player for Unix-like systems
> 
> mplayer is using internals of libavformat which have been renamed. This
> particular symbol is now called 'ff_codec_wav_tags', but there are also
> other ones. Upgrading to mplayer rc4 will fix this issue.

So far as I can see, this only affects users of the ffmpeg libraries in
experimental currently?  If so, then this isn't a blocker for the
squeeze release; tagging as such.

Regards,

Adam