[FFmpeg-devel] ABI break in 4.3

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 10:43 AM Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de> wrote:
>
> Or, summarized: A program may have been built with 4.3 but is combined
> with 4.2.3 at runtime, then this can happen:
>

Running against an older version then the build version is never
supported. ABI compatibility is only guaranteed forwards. An entirely
new function could be added, and not touch existing ABI, and this
scenario would still break.
A distribution should never allow this to happen.

- Hendrik