Re: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10750] Use of GdkPixdata / gdk_pixbuf_new_from_inline deprecated in gdk-pixbuf 2.31.2

[Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>]

2015-01-07 20:08 GMT+01:00 Stephen Fisher <sfisher () sdf org>:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 07:51:33PM +0100, B?lint R?czey wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> What about leaving disabled functions deprecated in git and removing it
> from distribution source tarballs?  Gerald (at least used to) do this
> upon release for -Werror, for example:
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=22144&view=revision
I use git snapshots to base the Debian packages on because it is the
(ideally) minimal set of files which Wireshark can be built from. It
is also a set of files with clean history without any pre-generated
additions.

Thus this change would not affect Debian packages.

Cheers,
Balint

> > Deprecated functions are usually removed in a few releases and we
> > should be prepared for the removal.
>
> If I remember correctly, GTK/GLib removes deprecated functions at the
> next major version.  The downside of not remembering to fix them along
> the way would be a lot of extra work when the next major version came
> out.
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