On 2024-06-04 09:31:38 +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > > > Le 4 juin 2024 00:41:03 GMT+03:00, James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >Well, no. Breakages are expected when you remove API. The real question is > >why so many projects wait until the old API is gone to migrate. What we > >removed in 7.0 has had its replacement in place for a couple years, since > >5.1. > > Because nobody cares to fix it until it breaks. > > Before that it takes a long time for the breakage to be visible since most > down-stream projects get FFmpeg as a pinned vendored release and/or from > stable Linux distros. > > And then you have projects that are dead or in a never-ending release cycle > due to their own reasons (VLC...), holding back any stable release source > update.
vlc is in a state where it cannot keep up with the changes in its dependencies from a packagers viewpoint. If there weren't changes in the git repository, I would almost say that the project is dead. The last changes I made to the vlc package in Debian are all disabling features (libplacebo, hardware decoding, ...). The recent changes in ffmpeg may put the final nail into the coffin and we need to start looking at its removal [1]. Best Sebastian [1] I don't usually like to threaten removal, but there is a limit of what volunteer package maintainers can handle. -- Sebastian Ramacher _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
