[FFmpeg-devel] [libav-devel] [PATCH 0/20] removal of deprecated features

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 30.07.2015 18:10, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 30/07/15 17:49, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> Have you tried sending them patches before breaking compatibility?
> 
> We did in the past.

Great, so please do it again.

> Needless to say distributors then did not pick up the updated releases
> of those softwares making it sort of a meaningless endeavor.

Probably they just needed more time to pick them up.
It's the fault of the distributors, if they ship newer versions of
the libav* libraries, but not of the packages using them.

Best regards,
Andreas