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Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10750] Use of GdkPixdata / gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline deprecated in gdk-pixbuf 2.31.2
From: Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 19:51:33 +0100
Hi Stephen, 2015-01-07 19:31 GMT+01:00 Stephen Fisher <sfisher () sdf org>:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:21:06PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon () wireshark org wrote:https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10750 --- Comment #7 from Balint Reczey <balint () balintreczey hu> --- (In reply to Stephen Fisher from comment #6)Distribution sources really shouldn't disable deprecated functions like that; only developer ones should to remind us to update the functions. However Wireshark doesn't have an (easy) way to change that so I'm going to the remove -DDISABLE_DEPRECATED flag shortly as well as backporting it.Please don't do that. Distributions are free to patch out the deprecations and I regularly do that when it is needed for all Debian derivatives.But why should they have to? And what about users who build from regular source distributions of Wireshark? Developers using -DDISABLE_DEPRECATED just buys us a reminder when something suddenly becomes deprecated in a newer version by breaking it and waiting for a fix, but for users it causes headache trying to either remove that flag or downgrade the software (in this case gdk-pixbuf). I had another piece of software get hit by this same problem last week, so I ended up going the lazy route and downgrading gdk-pixbuf.
IMO integration is the distributions' package maintainers job and disabling such reminders is one of their decisions to make or not make. I would prefer keeping them when wearing any of my Wireshark Dev and my Debian Dev hats. Removing usages of the deprecated functions is on my TODO list, but if I can't finish that in reasonable time keeping the reminder would help others to act. Deprecated functions are usually removed in a few releases and we should be prepared for the removal. Cheers, Balint ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10750] Use of GdkPixdata / gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline deprecated in gdk-pixbuf 2.31.2 Stephen Fisher (Jan 07)
- Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10750] Use of GdkPixdata / gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline deprecated in gdk-pixbuf 2.31.2 Bálint Réczey (Jan 07)