libdvdread slight API breakage

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Jul 27 09:11:53 UTC 2008


On Sunday 27 July 2008, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Since libdvdnav (and libdvdread) have been forked by one of MPlayer's
> developers, there's been a significant bugfixing effort going on.
> Unfortunately, the new upstream broke the API a bit. While before
> you'd use
> #include <dvdread/dvd_reader.h>
> now you have to use
> #include <libdvdread/dvd_reader.h>.

Any ideas why they did that and if similar breakage is expected to happen with 
dvdnav soon (it's still <dvdnav/...>)?

> A libdvdread build that requires the above change has already landed
> in rawhide.

Quite a while ago actually.  I placed an ugly hack in dvdauthor that should 
keep the package backwards compatible almost three weeks ago to take this 
into account.




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