Bug#796238: libavcodec56: video players seg fault when using libavcodec for decoding video

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Fabian,

On 22.08.2015 14:00, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> sorry for misspelling your name, I was really tired yesterday evening!

No problem, such things can happen.

> Am Freitag, den 21.08.2015, 22:17 +0200 schrieb Andreas Cadhalpun:
>> Since we're using FFmpeg in stretch, these problems shouldn't
>> happen anymore in the future (unless dmo starts using Libav).
> 
> this may be true. However, I think we should prevent our users from
> installing mixtures of Debian's and dmo's packages.

I don't see a point in doing this, when such mixtures just work.

> The trick is really
> easy, it's either a modified dh_makeshlibs/dh_shlibdeps/dh_makeshlibs
> sequence in debian/rules or a debian/shlibs.local file.

It would probably be simpler to add a 'Breaks: libavutilNN (>= 9:0)'
to our libavutilNN, as dmo uses epoch 10.
But I don't understand why you want to prevent such mixtures.

Anyway, that will become only relevant, once we drop the '-ffmpeg'
suffix from the libraries, i.e. with the next SOVERSION bump in
FFmpeg 2.8.

Best regards,
Andreas