[FFmpeg-devel] Deleting oldabi branch
Carl Eugen Hoyos
cehoyos at ag.or.at
Sun Jul 7 13:21:33 CEST 2013
Stefano Sabatini <stefasab <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Please delete the oldabi branch in the git repo. It is
> > > 19 months old, and nobody is using it anymore AFAIK.
> > Is there any old software, older versions, older
> > checkouts of something refering to this branch? forum
> > posts, mailing list posts?
I am sure such references exist.
> > will we maybe want to bisect based on something from
> > that branch ever?
This is at least possible.
> Theoretically yes, most probably practically no.
?
(As in: Theoretically, an issue is a security risk,
but practically not?)
> Even if so, the use of that branch should be discouraged,
> since it doesn't receive attention nor security fixes.
I believe an explanation on the download page (or
somewhere else) would be very useful.
Please do not delete the branch, Carl Eugen
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