On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 17:04:14 (CET), Reimar Döffinger wrote: > On 1 Jan 2012, at 15:26, Reinhard Tartler <siret...@tauware.de> wrote: >> On So, Jan 01, 2012 at 15:08:03 (CET), Julien Cristau wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 08:25:00 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> Honestly, this is kind of a broken position IMO. The moment one of your >>> reverse deps uses a symbol, it stops being internal, whatever your >>> intentions were. >> >> Well, if you can show me that a number of other packages use >> ff_codec_wav_tags, I agree to patch the symbol versioning script to make >> it visible again. But TBH, I'd be surprised if you would find a single >> other package. > > Please note that this is fixed since several months (actually I think > since very shortly after this became an issue) in MPlayer svn.
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that; thanks for the notice. > So you could update, backport the patch (well, unfortunately several > since the first few tries were broken) or make the versioning script > change as a temporary workaround you would _not_ have to carry around > forever. Well, of course backporting that patch would be an option, but TBH, I don't really think it's worth the effort and we should update the mplayer package anyways. However, I feel very uneasy with updating packages to random snapshot versions for distro releases¹. I personally, and it seems nobody from team pkg-multimedia either, has the ressources to continously check what important changes may or may not be useful for debian, so I really prefer sticking with release tarballs. Unfortunately, there was no release that matched Libav 0.7, so I bit the bullet and uploaded a snapshot that was up-to-date when Libav 0.7 was released to Debian (which was then synced to Ubuntu). Maybe you're right and we now need again to update to a current snapshot version. But as stated before, I feel very uneasy with that and would prefer a proper release tarball, which is then shared other distros. Happy new year, Reinhard 1: For Ubuntu PPAs, that's a totally different story, as they are 'opt-in' and not available by default. You might remember that I build daily mplayer packages via cron at https://launchpad.net/~motumedia/+archive/mplayer-daily/+packages, but as these use a static libav copy instead of the system libav, we cannot use these packages directly. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
