Bug#757917: [libav-devel] Bug#757917: transition: libav11
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:01:08 -0400, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2014 8:18 AM, "Emilio Pozuelo Monfort" <pochu@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/08/14 13:41, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > > A prerelease for
> > > Libav11 that passes upstream's extensive test suite is currently in
> > > debian/experimental, and I'll make sure that the final release will be
> > > done and uploaded before jessie freeze.
> >
> > Hmm, so there's only an alpha for now... How stable is it? Are there
> > going to be
> > further ABI changes before the final release? Is there a schedule /
> > roadmap? I'm
> > not very confident with doing the transition until there's a beta or an
> > RC with
> > an ABI stability promise.
>
API/ABI stability is mostly not related to the release schedule. Any
backwards-incompatible changes happen only along with major version bumps. One
such happened a couple days ago (and broke ABI, but not API, compatibility).
Now the tree is stable and so should remain fully backward compatible until the
next major bump (which won't happen at least for a couple months).
--
Anton Khirnov
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