[Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:29:53PM +0100, Shaw Andy wrote:
> > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:40:23 AM Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > imo no. just pretend that it never happened.
> > > at this point there aren't many packages which are considered stable,
> > > and even fewer packages which depend on this module. other users won't
> > > be affected by this change to any noteworthy degree.
> > 
> > That seems most reasonable to me. It's not perfect-by-the-book, but I also
> > don't think anyone would notice it given the release just in december.
> 
> I don't think it should be done silently at all, I'm not exactly for
> the idea of even breaking BC but I can accept an exception this early
> in the Qt 5.x series if there is no other way and it is critical to be
> done.  But this should be clear in the changelog and release notes
> that it was done, better to be open about it than to hope no-one
> notices.
> 
this isn't about a cover-up, but about not making a fuss about a virtual
non-event (no pun intended). changelog entries, etc. are ok (like for
any bugfix), while changing the soversion seems just a bit over the top.