[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 64360] pa_format_info_free2 has disappeared

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64360

Arun Raghavan <arun at accosted.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG

--- Comment #7 from Arun Raghavan <arun at accosted.net> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
[...]
> From a distribution perspective, what i do tend to ask upstreams is to take
> their ABI and soname versioning seriously (you may be surprised, but some
> folks just don't care because they're not directly impacted by getting it
> wrong).. Part of that is making sure you only expose the symbols that one
> actually cares about and is happy to maintain over time (until the soname
> version is bumped essentially). Note that this isn't a complaint about
> pulseaudio, just a general statement :)

I try to do this for every release, making sure changes to API are correctly
reflected in version-info changes.

> So i guess, again with my distro hat on, If the pulseaudio maintainers are
> happy to say: This symbol won't be used by any applications and you won't
> get a massive fallout of applications that stop working in your distro if
> pulse is updated to this version.. Then i would be okish with it being
> dropped :) (Oh and if it causes a massive fallout, i'll come back and shout
> at you, be warned :p)

This was never exposed in headers, so if someone's using it, they've brought it
upon themselves.

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