On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09.08.2015 12:57, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>> 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 problem is not that creating patches for these two API changes was
> difficult, but that these affect the majority of API users.
>
>> The same goes for other easily scriptable changes. These APIs are gone and
>> I don't want them back.
>
> What is your problem with keeping the trivial compatibility layers for
> another year?

Some of these changes have been delayed before already, so what should
make us believe now that in a year you won't be here again with a long
list of projects that still didn't update, asking for more time yet
again?

- Hendrik
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