[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 01/48] avcodec/packet: deprecate av_init_packet()

[James Almer]

On 3/21/2021 8:13 PM, Hendrik Leppkes wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 3:24 PM James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> How about adding the deprecation attribute to prompt people to read the
>> doxy, where we state the field is not going away, just changing types?
>> Otherwise i don't think people will notice.
> 
> I really don't like such solutions. You get warning spam in user code
> with basically no way to remedy them.
> 
> - Hendrik

I'm going to add a new field in the end. A change of type can't ensure 
projects that don't migrate stop compiling (Like it happens when a field 
is removed), and instead will unexpectedly crash if they try to access 
it the wrong way.

But i can't do it until after the bump because libavdevice is locking 
every AVStream field offset.