[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] news: add entry about stricter configure behavior

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:24 PM, James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/10/2016 7:22 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> 2016-12-10 19:47 GMT+01:00 Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com>:
>>> Suggested-by: Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun at googlemail.com>
>>> ---
>>>  src/index | 7 +++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/src/index b/src/index
>>> index c203676..8f533f5 100644
>>> --- a/src/index
>>> +++ b/src/index
>>> @@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
>>>      News
>>>    </h1>
>>>
>>> +  <h3 id="stricterconfigure">December 10th, 2016, stricter configure behavior.</h3>
>>> +  <p>
>>> +    The configure script now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found.
>>> +  </p>
>>> +  <p>
>>> +    If for example SDL headers are not available, '--enable-sdl2' will cause a configure failure.
>>
>> Please push, esp. since the relevant change is already in git.
>>
>> Thank you, Carl Eugen
>
> Again, I'm against this. This is not news entry worthy.
>
> A line can be added to the next release news entry announcement, or
> to the RELEASE_NOTES files, but not alone.
>

I agree with James, simple behavior changes in git master should not
be posted as their own news entries. We have changelogs for this and
release summary announcements.

- Hendrik