The later, doing damage in surface coordinates instead of buffer
coordinates, has been deprecated. The reason for that is that it
is more prone to bugs, both on the client and the compositor side,
especially when paired with buffer scale, `wp_viewporter` or
buffer transforms.
Unfortunately, on Weston this risks running into
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/issues/446
(which causes trouble for several other projects as well). However,
that bug only affects cases where we run in sync mode, i.e. only
during resizes. In practise I haven't been able to observe the
issue.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1446>
