On Mi, Nov 02, 2011 at 13:14:49 (CET), Martin Storsjö wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>
>> ---
>> configure            |   21 +--------------------
>> libavutil/internal.h |   28 ----------------------------
>> 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>
> This is useful whenever we move public functions from one library to
> another. Currently, there are no such ones, since the cases where it was
> used was removed after the last major bump, but if we want to move more
> functions in an upcoming bump, we'll need this again.
>
> Sure, we could just revert the removal if we need to move other
> functions again, of course, but removing it breaks scripts that use
> --disable-symver for the periods of time when it isn't present.

I agree with Martin,

We should at least deprecate that configure switch for one release
before actually removing them.

Besides, I'm also not entirely convinced that dropping it is a good
idea.

Cheers,
Reinhard.

-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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