From ce70f28a1732c74a9cd7fec2d56178750bd6e457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:11:31 +0200
Subject: avpacket: Replace av_free_packet with av_packet_unref

`av_packet_unref` matches the AVFrame ref-counted API and can be used as
a drop in replacement.

Deprecate `av_free_packet`.
---
 doc/APIchanges | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/APIchanges')

diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index f9297406ad..590f192a46 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ libavutil:     2015-08-28
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.7.0 - avcodec.h
+  Deprecate av_free_packet(). Use av_packet_unref() as replacement,
+  it resets the packet in a more consistent way.
+
 2015-xx-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.5.0 - avcodec.h
   Add data and linesize array to AVSubtitleRect, to be used instead of
   the ones from the embedded AVPicture.
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