Bug#699648: ffmpeg: Please rebuild against correct libavcodec version

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com> wrote:
> Am 03.02.2013 15:46, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
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>> What exact version of mplayer do you use, and what is the exact output?
>> The bug is currently marked as affecting a version that does not exist.
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> And even if...
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> I fail to see how this is a bug at all. The library ABI is stable as long as
> the major SONAME is identical - which it is in this case. Who cares if the
> minor SONAME is different at runtime from the one at buildtime. We are not
> supposed to rebuild every application whenever minor SONAME is bumped or are
> we? Why does mplayer even complain about that?

ffmpeg and MPlayer (but not mplayer2 afaiui) do/did use 'private'
symbols from libavcodec and friends, and are much more sensitive to
subtle changes. This mainly stems from bad design, but we still keep
the pieces...



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regards,
    Reinhard