Bug#653887: libavformat53 breaks mplayer

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Jan 1 14:08:03 UTC 2012


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

> 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.
> 
Honestly, this is kind of a broken position IMO.  The moment one of your
reverse deps uses a symbol, it stops being internal, whatever your
intentions were.

Cheers,
Julien





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