On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:21:06PM +0000, bugzilla-daemon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10750
>
> --- Comment #7 from Balint Reczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---
> (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.
