On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:50:45PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 15:14:21 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > As of today, debian does not contain this bug, because ffmpeg with this > > brakage happened not to be uploaded yet to debian. However, once it is, > > the bug will be in debian, and will have to be handled somehow. > > > So when that happens, you change the libavformat52 package name to > something else?
For an example of this, look at libsdl1.2debian. See Bug#114808 for what happened, and/or the libsdl1.2 changelog entry for version 1.2.2-3.1. In this particular case, the symbols that got removed came from static libraries that got somehow included in a shared library (which is ugly and doesn't work on half our architectures). -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
