2015-01-07 20:08 GMT+01:00 Stephen Fisher <sfisher@xxxxxxx>:
> 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.