On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 08:28:28PM +0200, Frank Lömker wrote: > Hello, > > On 08/09/2015 06:57 AM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote: > >> Does not LGTM. > > > > Yeah, I'm with this. Andreas, the correct fix is to update applications, > > even if that means vendor-specific patches in Debian. These are > > exceptionally trivial patches that you can generate using fairly trivial > > sed scripting. > > > > The same goes for other easily scriptable changes. These APIs are gone and > > I don't want them back. > > Please think about it again. There is lots more software out there > than what is packaged in Debian, and with every API change you break > quite a bit of them. Most of this SW is not a media player, where > FFmpeg is the core component of the system. It's often just a small > nice extra feature where FFmpeg is used, where the developers are > just happy after it works, and don't want to spend continuously > time on it to keep it working. > > And that's even the easy part. A lot of people don't update there > distribution every six months, often it's years old. If you try to > support all these distributions you end up with lot's and lot's of > #ifdefery. With FFmpeg and it's continuous API changes that gets > quite fast quite complex and hard. And adding a copy of FFmpeg and > linking statically to every small tool is really not a solution. > > Two years is extremely short. If you would keep the deprecated > interfaces at least four years that would be a start. It's of > course up to you, but you make the life of your users extremely > hard with these continuous changes. > > Just an example of a frustrated developer about API changes, > here QT from 4 to 5 (and Qt is better with API stability, > Qt 4.0 was released 28 June 2005, and the first incompatible > version 5.0 19 December 2012): > > http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi/2015/04/06 > > Thanks, >
Well, we have old stable release for that. -- Clément B.
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