Bug#619530: ffmpeg: backport of 4:0.6.1-5 from unstable produces WARNING: library configuration mismatch

[Faheem Mitha]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:39:06 (CEST), Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> WARNING: library configuration mismatch
>
> Please note that this is just a warning. It also happens in ubuntu when
> one installs the libavcodec-extra-52 package.

Hmm. I'm still getting the error here, but libavcodec-extra-52 is not 
installed.

> TBH, I'm considering applying a distro patch that just disables this
> error message, as its not much of use for Debian and Ubuntu.

According to the ffmpeg developers, this reflects a mismatch of versions. 
Assuming they are correct, and this is not just blowing smoke, then my 
feeling is that this is caused by insufficiently tight package 
dependencies, so my suggestion would be to track it down, though this 
would probably be a comparatively difficult and thankless task even if 
successful.

It is unfortunate that the warning gives no real indication of where the 
problem lies.

I don't know if disabling the warning is such a great idea, see as it can, 
possibly, reflect underlying problems.

                                                           Regards, Faheem