[Development] Exception to source compatibility: adding AA_CompressHighFrequencyEvents flag

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

Please correct me if I'm wrong: the feature which will break API was added in 
5.6.0, and we can say that most of the people out there are not using it.

Ideally API/ABI should not be broken without a SONAME change. If I had some 
Qt5 app using it already I would be forced to do a hack in our packaging: 
faking a SONAME change.

Now it just happens that we in Debian haven't pushed 5.6 to unstable yet (we 
are waiting for 5.6.1) so it's not a problem for us now. It will be if pushed 
with 5.6.2 instead of 5.6.1.

Of course I'm only speaking for us Debian, I don't know the impact on other 
distros.

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