[FFmpeg-devel] Upgrade Trouble

[Reinhard Tartler]

Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> writes:

>> Wouldn't it be much more practical to declare that the version bump
>> broke (indirectly) the binary compatibility of the intermediate
>> libraries (libavformat, libavcodec, etc.), and thus, bump SONAME on *all*
>> libraries that link against libavutil? I think that would be all
>> libraries but libswscale.
>> 
>> This would allow FFmpeg 0.5 and current trunk to be installed in
>> parallel and thus, make my life as packager a *lot* easier in this case.
>
> This would fix things for programs that only have *direct* use of FFmpeg
> libraries. However there could still be problems if a program uses other
> libraries that internally depend on FFmpeg ones; those indirect
> dependencies can still load any older library version into the process.

ah, you mean applications that link both to an intermediate library and
e.g. libavcodec? Do you have any examples of those in mind?

I guess that we can fix all of them with simple rebuilds, which can be
done very easily for both distros I work on.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4