[FFmpeg-devel] Upgrade Trouble

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 22:20 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Is my analysis correct? If yes, you can imagine that the shown testcase
> is exactly what happens in a distro setting. Media players have been
> built against FFmpeg 0.5, and upgrading FFmpeg packages will change the
> system in a very similar way as described here. How can the problem
> described in my mail avoided in an *elegant* way?

You can add versioned symbols to future packages (or upstream FFmpeg if
possible).