On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:21:06PM +0000, bugzilla-dae...@wireshark.org wrote: > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10750 > > --- Comment #7 from Balint Reczey <bal...@balintreczey.hu> --- > (In reply to Stephen Fisher from comment #6) > > Distribution sources really shouldn't disable deprecated functions like > > that; only developer ones should to remind us to update the functions. > > However Wireshark doesn't have an (easy) way to change that so I'm going to > > the remove -DDISABLE_DEPRECATED flag shortly as well as backporting it. > > Please don't do that. Distributions are free to patch out the > deprecations and I regularly do that when it is needed for all Debian > derivatives.
But why should they have to? And what about users who build from regular source distributions of Wireshark? Developers using -DDISABLE_DEPRECATED just buys us a reminder when something suddenly becomes deprecated in a newer version by breaking it and waiting for a fix, but for users it causes headache trying to either remove that flag or downgrade the software (in this case gdk-pixbuf). I had another piece of software get hit by this same problem last week, so I ended up going the lazy route and downgrading gdk-pixbuf. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
