[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/18] avcodec: remove obsolete FF_API_FAST_MALLOC cruft

[James Almer]

On 30/09/14 11:34 PM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 10:59:39PM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> On 15.09.2014 22:03, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 04:08:49PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
>>>> On 15/09/14 6:07 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:46:03PM -0300, James Almer wrote:
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> about the patchset as a whole, not specifically this one
>>>>>
>>>>> we should check if theres any software left around that still uses
>>>>> the symbols before removing the code completely and if so consider
>>>>> to reintroduce them in a 2.4.1 while removing whats unused
>>>>
>>>> Pushed the three you reviewed since either no code depended on them, or in the
>>>> OpenCL case it's an API that nobody has ever been able to use anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not exactly interested in looking around to see if any of this deprecated
>>>> stuff is still used. And IMO reintroducing them in a point release is quite ugly.
>>>> An exception could be FF_API_DRAWTEXT_OLD_TIMELINE since as Clément pointed in
>>>> another email might be needed to remain compatible with libav.
>>>
>>> probably you only have to wait, as i suspect andreas (in CC) will
>>> test building all dependant packages in debian against 2.4
>>
>> You're right that I'm currently rebuilding those against 2.4, but I
>> don't expect any problems there, since I already have rebuilt them
>> against a git snapshot about two weeks ago and didn't notice
>> anything problematic.
> 
> any news ? can these be applied ?

Debian packages are all meant to work with libav 9 or 11 api, and all this deprecated 
code removed in 2.4 was ffmpeg exclusive, so it's unlikely they used any of it.
Also, 2.4 has been out for two weeks and nobody complained about their applications 
breaking because these are no longer available.

We could wait a bit more in any case. The entire patchset is just dead code removal.