[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 00/26] Major library version bump

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, at 21:08, Marton Balint wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023, James Almer wrote:
>
>> On 1/24/2023 12:45 PM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
>>>  So to summarize the discussion so far:
>>>
>>>  * nobody is strongly arguing for an instability period after the bump,
>>>     and there are good reasons against it, therefore we should NOT have
>>>     one
>>>
>>>  * the bump can be done either as bump-then-remove or remove-then-bump
>>>       * there are advantages and disadvantages for both of those, nobody
>>>         expressed a strong preference for either, so you can keep this as
>>>         is
>>>
>>>  Please correct me if I misunderstood or missed something, or somebody
>>>  has a new opinion.
>>
>> Since the instability period doesn't seem popular, if anyone has some patches 
>> for ABI changes (enum value or field offset changes, removing avpriv_ 
>> functions we forgot about, etc), then please send them asap so i can push 
>> them all at the same time.
>
> Ok, I can send the frame number changes tomorrow. When do you plan to do 
> the actual bump? I assumed the last 5.x release should be branched first.

Why? 5.1 was already branched out.

I would Bump and prepare 6.0 just after, no?

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