From: Jan Engelhardt Date: 2020-07-04 23:56:54.411950316 +0200 User frispete wrote on 2020-6-26 22:13+0000 at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/multimedia:libs/ffmpeg-4#comment-1257440 : """Unfortunately, this version is binary incompatible to 4.2.3 in some aspects. [...]""" Further discussion on the mailing list explored this topic, and revealed that ELF symbol versioning is lacklusterly implemented in ffmpeg, which can cause inadvertent mixing of library versions on openSUSE, and precompiled Linux distributions in general. It is unclear when upstream will have implemented a solution. Until then, we will need to tighten the requirements between packages, to which end we stretch the SOVERSION to include MINOR. --- configure | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: ffmpeg-4.3/configure =================================================================== --- ffmpeg-4.3.orig/configure +++ ffmpeg-4.3/configure @@ -3794,7 +3794,7 @@ SLIBPREF="lib" SLIBSUF=".so" SLIBNAME='$(SLIBPREF)$(FULLNAME)$(SLIBSUF)' SLIBNAME_WITH_VERSION='$(SLIBNAME).$(LIBVERSION)' -SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR='$(SLIBNAME).$(LIBMAJOR)' +SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR='$(SLIBNAME).$(LIBMAJOR).$(LIBMINOR)' LIB_INSTALL_EXTRA_CMD='$$(RANLIB) "$(LIBDIR)/$(LIBNAME)"' SLIB_INSTALL_NAME='$(SLIBNAME_WITH_VERSION)' SLIB_INSTALL_LINKS='$(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR) $(SLIBNAME)'