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

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

--- Comment #5 from David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > Even if pa_format_info_free2() was never part of public API as exposed in
> > > headers?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > That's the rules of libtool.
> 
> I don't think so. pa_format_info_free2() was never part of the ABI, except
> in a very technical sense that isn't relevant here, in my opinion.
> 
> > And Debian/Ubuntu nowadays automatically checks
> > this and complains loudly (i e build failure) if a symbol is removed.
> 
> Is there no way to skip the check?

Having read up a little, it seems there are a few different ways of working
around this check, yes.

> > We need to put it back.
> > 
> > Btw, I did the same thing for FluidSynth once (removed a symbol not exposed
> > in the headers), and got loud complaints from more than one distro
> > maintainer. I ended up putting it back.

Looking back, I misremembered, it was only one distro maintainer. The other
complained about something else. (Reference -
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/fluidsynth/ticket/98 )

> Why do the distro maintainers demand adding cruft back? I understand if they
> complain and call us stupid and whatever, because we cause extra work for
> them, but there's absolutely no long term need to add pa_format_info_free2()
> back. It's only the distro tools that will cause trouble, no application
> code will ever break because of this.

It would be good to have more opinions on this. Sjoerd, what do you think?

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