[FFmpeg-devel] Deleting oldabi branch

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Sun Jul 7 13:55:03 CEST 2013


On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 11:21:33AM +0000, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> 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.

one could just push a warning message to configure in the branch


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