On 12/10/2016 7:27 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: > 2016-12-10 23:24 GMT+01:00 James Almer <jamr...@gmail.com>: >> On 12/10/2016 7:22 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote: >>> 2016-12-10 19:47 GMT+01:00 Andreas Cadhalpun >>> <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com>: >>>> Suggested-by: Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> >>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhal...@googlemail.com> >>>> --- >>>> src/index | 7 +++++++ >>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index >>>> index c203676..8f533f5 100644 >>>> --- a/src/index >>>> +++ b/src/index >>>> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ >>>> News >>>> </h1> >>>> >>>> + <h3 id="stricterconfigure">December 10th, 2016, stricter configure >>>> behavior.</h3> >>>> + <p> >>>> + The configure script now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested >>>> but not found. >>>> + </p> >>>> + <p> >>>> + If for example SDL headers are not available, '--enable-sdl2' will >>>> cause a configure failure. >>> >>> Please push, esp. since the relevant change is already in git. >>> >>> Thank you, Carl Eugen >> >> Again, I'm against this. This is not news entry worthy. > > Then please revert the configure change: > This is (by far) the biggest change in configure behaviour since forever, > this has to be communicated and this was the condition for the patch.
I don't think reverting an (allegedly wanted and beneficial) change just because you wont accept it unless it has its own news entry makes sense or is even fair to the person that wrote it and submitted it. > >> A line can be added to the next release news entry announcement, or >> to the RELEASE_NOTES files, but not alone. > > If you care, add it to the release notes, but this cannot replace the > news entry. The RELEASE_NOTES mention is the only thing that's a must for this, aside from the Changelog entry. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
