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

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

2016-12-10 23:32 GMT+01:00 Hendrik Leppkes <h.leppkes at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Of course!
But this is not a "simple" change but the biggest change in
configure behaviour in the last decade.

Carl Eugen