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

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

On 01.10.2014 04:34, 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 ?

In case it wasn't sufficiently clear: There were no problems rebuilding 
them against FFmpeg 2.4, just as expected.

Best regards,
Andreas