[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[James Almer]

On 10/7/2021 10:07 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, at 11:35, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> I do plan to make releases from
>> 4.4, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.4, 3.2, 2.8 branches
>> why ?
> 
> I think this is too many to maintain.
> 
> I would argue you should only support:
> 2.8, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1 and 4.4
> 
> 2.8 (Ubuntu LTS 16.04 + RHEL7)

Ubuntu ended support for 16.04 last April. And is the ffmpeg RHEL7 
package official, or is it one of the Distros that shipped libav and 
users provided custom ffmpeg packages for them (Like SUSE)?

> 3.2 (Debian Stretch)
> 3.4 (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
> 4.1 (Debian Buster)

This is Old-Stable. Current Stable (Bullseye) uses 4.3, which also needs 
to be supported.

> 4.4 (master)
> 
> Because:
> - 4.0 is only OpenMandriva, and even the link says 4.4
> - 4.2 is only used by Fedora 32, that is EOL

Agree with dropping these two, as i pointed in other replies.

> 
> I would also discuss with Debian, to see if Stretch can be updated to 3.4, but that's a different topic.
> 
> jb
> 
> 
>> they are used by maintained distributions as listed on
>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams
>> (hint, please keep this page updated so release work is targeted to where its
>>   most usefull)
>> why 4.1 again ? because debian security people asked about the newly
>> accumulating fixes in the branch and the next release and IMHO it makes sense
>>
>> thx
>>
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