Bug#536885: symbol lookup error: mplayer: undefined symbol: codec_wav_tags

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:38:54PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> mplayer however contains a private copy of ffmpeg in its sources, and
> has therefore no problem including headers that are not
> installed. libavformat/riff.h is e.g. such a header. This is strictly
> speaking a violation of usage convention, but the mplayer developers
> don't care here.

Just so that nobody gets the wrong impression: this is not so much not
careing but that overall due to maintainability issues it still seems
the better solution so far.
I admit though that we "focus" more on our users that compile MPlayer
themselves where this does not pose any issues.
If this causes too serious issues for distributions we might try to
re-evaluate, but obviously making us use harder to maintain code needs
some convincing.