Bug#653887: libavformat53 breaks mplayer

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Jan  1, 2012 at 08:25:00 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> reassign 653887 mplayer 2:1.0~rc4.dfsg1-1
> stop
> 
> Happy new year, Brian!
> 
> On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 02:37:37 (CET), Brian Paterni wrote:
> 
> > Package: libavformat53
> > Version: 4:0.8~beta1-1
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: 5
> 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > libavformat53 in experimental seems to have broken mplayer's ability to
> > playback files. After upgrading to 4:0.8~beta1-1, mplayer reports the following
> > whenever I attempt to play something:
> >
> > mplayer: relocation error: mplayer: symbol ff_codec_wav_tags, version
> > LIBAVFORMAT_53 not defined in file libavformat.so.53 with link time reference
> 
> I really think this is a bug in mplayer. ff_codec_wav_tags is and always
> was an internal symbol, that is no longer exported since this commit:
> 
> http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d74bf17c6d6280195854f4dadb19ef37d054566
> 
> This issue a long-standing wart in mplayer that should really be fixed
> there.
> 
It should *also* be fixed in libavformat53 by adding Breaks against
unfixed versions of mplayer.

Cheers,
Julien