Upgrade Trouble

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Am 30.11.2009 20:09, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>> How would that work in detail?
>
> I've found two bugs reports in the BTS (both against the same package,
> both filed by the same person) which even provide patches with possible
> implementations:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=180725
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=333349


Okay, I've found now http://debconf4.debconf.org/talks/dependency-hell/,
with references to the ld manual which describe this in detail. So my
current understanding of this approach would be this:


 1. Recompile ffmpeg 0.5 in unstable with the following versioning
    script:

FFMPEG_0.5 {
  global: *;
};

 2. recompile *all* packages in debian against this new ffmpeg version
    so that applications pick up the new versioned symbols

 3. build ffmpeg trunk with another version script:

FFMPEG_SVN_54321 {
  global: *;
};

 4. profit.

This sounds pretty complicated, but it could indeed be a valid solution
for this problem.

comments welcome.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4