Bug#653887: libavformat53 breaks mplayer

[Reinhard Tartler]

On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 15:08:03 (CET), Julien Cristau wrote:

> 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.

Well, if you can show me that a number of other packages use
ff_codec_wav_tags, I agree to patch the symbol versioning script to make
it visible again. But TBH, I'd be surprised if you would find a single
other package.

And it's not like we didn't have alternatives to mplayer.

Cheers,
Reinhard.

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