On 08/25/2016 02:28 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
On Thursday, 25 August 2016 at 10:24, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 08/25/2016 10:01 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
[...]
>> Specially as ffmpeg doesn't do symbol version, if one process has
>> dependencies using both version, it will crash.
> AFAIU, as long as these packages are properly linked (and not libraries
> not being dlopened), package deps on SONAMEs would conflict and thus
> prevent such problems.
The point is that not all SONAMEs change with each FFmpeg version bump,
so, for example, ffmpeg-3.0.x and ffmpeg-3.1.x may have mostly the same
SONAMEs.
This would mean these are ABI compatible.
I haven't tried to check and verify actual situation wrt. ffmpeg.
Ralf