On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > On 12-05-13 at 07:48pm, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> the 'old' libavcodec53, which a lot of applications link against, >> becomes uninstallable because of the strict internal dependencies: >> >> Depends: libavutil51 (>= 4:0.8.1-0ubuntu1) | libavutil-extra-51 (>= >> 4:0.8.1), libavutil51 (<< 4:0.8.1-99) | libavutil-extra-51 (<< 4:0.8.1.99) >> >> What can we do now about this: > > e) Use symbols files to resolve dependencies based on actual symbols > used.
I imagine private symbols from libav change frequently and it would be a pain trying to update symbol files for every release of libav because of this. I don't have any actual hard evidence for this however. > I labelled this e) not d) as I suspect you _did_ think of this but don't > like it (and/or I didn't understand how it is unsuitable here). > > > - Jonas > > -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list > pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers -- ~ Andres _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers