Bug#623682: [PATCH/RFC 0/3] Re: libavcodec-dev: please mention the fate of CODEC_TYPE_AUDIO macros in NEWS or changelog

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 02:18:16 (CEST), Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>
>>    * don't try to install non-existing documentation, fixes FTBFS on powerpc
>>    * add NEWS.Debian file
>>    * install doc/APIChanges and refer to them in NEWS.Debian (Closes: #623682)
>>    * readd deprecated avcodec_thread_init in libavformat
>
> Thanks for this.  I tried the package and it seems that NEWS.Debian
> isn't actually installed.  While working on that, I picked a few other
> nits:
>
>  * the APIChanges should only be relevant to people using the
>    development libraries, so I think it makes more sense to only
>    install them to lib*-dev and libav-doc
>
>  * using source format 3.0 (quilt), so "git reset --hard" and
>    other habits don't produce confusing results
>
>  * allowing "debian/rules clean" as a non-root user.  In
>    modern times, most people don't run "debian/rules binary" as true
>    root anyway, and in the worst case "debian/rules clean" will error
>    out and the user will know what to do (just a pet peave).
>
> If you have any complaints, I'd be glad to roll a new version of the
> patches addressing them.

Thanks, I've applied (most) of them mostly unmodified.

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