Bug#653887: libavformat53 breaks mplayer

[Reinhard Tartler]

On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 13:57:13 (CET), Julien Cristau wrote:

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

[...]

>> >
>> > 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.

Yes, but only after we actually have a fixed version of mplayer in
debian, or am I missing something?

Cheers,
Reinhard


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