[FFmpeg-devel] 2.9/3.0, 2.8.5, ...

[wm4]

On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 13:07:04 -0300
James Almer <jamrial at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/14/2016 1:04 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> > Henrik Gramner <henrik <at> gramner.com> writes:
> >   
> >> The Ubuntu 16.04 LTS feature freeze is coming up next week, 
> >> so it'd be nice to have a release before that.  
> > 
> > (I am all for it, I am not sure if it is still possible though.)
> > 
> > The following tickets are showstoppers imo:
> > #5215
> > #5090 and #5216  
> 
> They are not. They are all fixes that can be promptly backported.
> No reason whatsoever to force a distro to stick with a five months
> old release of ffmpeg just because of three rare issues that can
> and will be fixed eventually.

+1