[FFmpeg-devel] maintainer duties (was: Re: [PATCH] fix speex sample)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 01:14:29PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 05:48:07AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:42:04AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > Michael:
> > > libavformat/asfdec.c:364: warning: AVPaletteControl is deprecated
> > > libavformat/avidec.c:491: warning: AVPaletteControl is deprecated
> > 
> > we first need to decide how to put the palette info into the bitstream, also
> > fixing these 2 will require all decoders that support palettes from avi/asf
> > to be fixed at the same time as well.
> 
> If this has not been decided, why is the function deprecated?  There
> should be a proper replacement first...

AVPaletteControl simply does not work (correctly), even now. Thus it is
important to make sure no new codecs will use it.
And what is a "proper" replacement unfortunately is codec-specific.