There is no practical benefit in having this structure elements bit packed given the size of the structure and its usage. Change types from uint16_t (packed) to plain int in order to simplify modifying the structure and accessing its fields.
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| 16 | 16 | 2015-xx-xx - lavu 55.0.0 |
| 17 | 17 | xxxxxxx - Change type of AVPixFmtDescriptor.flags from uint8_t to uint64_t. |
| 18 | + xxxxxxx - Change type of AVComponentDescriptor fields from uint16_t to int | |
| 19 | + and drop bit packing. | |
| 18 | 20 | |
| 19 | 21 | 2015-xx-xx - lavu 54.17.0 |
| 20 | 22 | xxxxxxx - Add av_blowfish_alloc(). |