Bug#653887: libavformat53 breaks mplayer

[Helge Kreutzmann]

clone 653887 -1
reassign -1 libavcodec-extra-53
severity -1 wishlist
reopen -1
retitle -1 Please add breaks against mplayer
found -1 4:0.8~beta2.2 
thanks

On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 02:56:29PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 13:57:13 (CET), Julien Cristau wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan  1, 2012 at 08:25:00 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> >
> >> > libavformat53 in experimental seems to have broken mplayer's ability to
> >> > playback files. After upgrading to 4:0.8~beta1-1, mplayer reports the following
> >> > whenever I attempt to play something:
> >> >
> >> > mplayer: relocation error: mplayer: symbol ff_codec_wav_tags, version
> >> > LIBAVFORMAT_53 not defined in file libavformat.so.53 with link time reference
> >> 
> >> I really think this is a bug in mplayer. ff_codec_wav_tags is and always
> >> was an internal symbol, that is no longer exported since this commit:
> >> 
> >> http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=8d74bf17c6d6280195854f4dadb19ef37d054566
> >> 
> >> This issue a long-standing wart in mplayer that should really be fixed
> >> there.
> >> 
> > It should *also* be fixed in libavformat53 by adding Breaks against
> > unfixed versions of mplayer.
> 
> Yes, but only after we actually have a fixed version of mplayer in
> debian, or am I missing something?

This is now the case. And also the corrected mplayer seems to have
problems migrating to Testing, while libavformat53 has. Rebuilding of
the new mplayer in testing does not work, either, because trying to
install the build deps runs into:
 libavcodec-dev : Depends: libavcodec53 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                           libavcodec-extra-53 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed
 libavdevice-dev : Depends: libavdevice53 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libavdevice-extra-53 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed
 libavformat-dev : Depends: libavformat53 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libavformat-extra-53 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed
 libavutil-dev : Depends: libavutil51 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                          libavutil-extra-51 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed
 libpostproc-dev : Depends: libpostproc52 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                            libpostproc-extra-52 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed
 libswscale-dev : Depends: libswscale2 (<= 4:0.7.3-99) but it is not going to be installed or
                          libswscale-extra-2 (<= 4:0.7.3.99) but 4:0.8~beta2.2 is to be installed

So for now mplayer is broken in Testing. (And yes, there are other players, but mplayer *does* have
its advantages)

And also consider partial updates. 

Greetings

               Helge
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