Upgrade Trouble

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Reinhard,

thanks for bringing this issue up upstream!

Am 28.11.2009 22:20, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
> Is my analysis correct? If yes, you can imagine that the shown testcase
> is exactly what happens in a distro setting. Media players have been
> built against FFmpeg 0.5, and upgrading FFmpeg packages will change the
> system in a very similar way as described here. How can the problem
> described in my mail avoided in an *elegant* way?

well, I think the most elegant way would be to introduce symbol 
versioning upstream. As distributors, we can still add Breaks: against 
the previous library package in the new library package.

Cheers,
Fabian


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