Bug#611579: libavformat52: broke ABI without SONAME change

[Reinhard Tartler]

retitle 611579 Provide proper upgrade path for mplayer rc3
reassign 611579 mplayer
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 23:05:33 (CET), Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:

> Package: libavformat52
> Version: 4:0.6.1-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: 8
>
> user at host:~ $ gmplayer
> gmplayer: relocation error: gmplayer: symbol codec_wav_tags, version LIBAVFORMAT_52 not defined in file libavformat.so.52 with link time reference
> user at host:~ $ dpkg -l mplayer-gui
> ii  mplayer-gui                  2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1     movie player for Unix-like systems

mplayer is using internals of libavformat which have been renamed. This
particular symbol is now called 'ff_codec_wav_tags', but there are also
other ones. Upgrading to mplayer rc4 will fix this issue.

Still, a proper breaks field needs to be added to the ffmpeg package for
ensuring proper partial upgrades. thanks for reporting this.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4