Bug#512466: marked as done (libavcodec52: Undefined symbol av_lfg_init)

[Reinhard Tartler]

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

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>> for that reason I'm now convinced that need a double bounded versioned
>> dependency. Probably something like (<= $(UPSTREAMVERSION)-99). Since it
>> seems that we all seem agree that the solution involving calling
>> dh_makeshlibs is the least ugly one, I'll try that out in the next days.
>
> I agree, although I still fail to understand why (<=
> $(UPSTREAMVERSION)-99) should be any better than (=
> ${binary:Version}). In practice it will introduce the same constraints
> to the packages dependencies.

it is a bit weaker. Imagine you have a local copy of the unstripped
ffmpeg, and now a new upload not including a new svn snapshot is
uploaded. in that case you can still profit from an updated
libavformat/libavutil/etc, without having to immediately recompile.

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