On So, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:28:46 (CET), Anton Khirnov wrote:

> 0.8 is finally out so we can start preparing the next major bump. Before
> we can actually bump, there are still some issues to resolve:

I guess you want to bump the soname of libavcodec only. Is that correct?

Could you please summarize the non-cosmetic benefits of this?

>From my last Debian archive rebuilds, I've seen that there are still *a
lot* of packages using deprecated APIs, and I fear that dropping them
will cause a serious amount of work to get all upstreams updated. I'd
therefore prefer to have some solid arguments ready before starting to
argue with fellow package maintainers.

Cheers,
Reinhard

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