On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:09:17 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:57 AM Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 06 Nov 2018 17:08:22 +0200 > > Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > It is not GStreamer fault that ffmpeg breaks API and ABI without > > > parallel installability, much less so the distro maintainers of > > > it. If you/upstream don't make it parallel installable, then this > > > is what you get. > > > > Are you, seriously, suggesting this is the solution to all problems > > here ? > > > > It isn't the only solution, but it is one sane upgrade path. You > can't expect everybody to update their software overnight when the API > changes. That means you have to support the old API for a while when > you introduce a new one, otherwise you end up with some software that > doesn't work with the old version, and some software that doesn't work > with the new version. These days, only symbols/constants that have been deprecated (and marked as such) for a couple of releases are removed. This means people see warnings for more than one year before seeing them gone for good. The problem here is not "overnight changes" but rather consumers not paying attention to those warnings, or worse, nobody ever seeing those because it's unmaintained. [...] Alexis.
