[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[James Almer]

On 10/6/2021 6:35 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I do plan to make releases from
> 4.4, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.4, 3.2, 2.8 branches
> why ?
> 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)

I just updated it. You can skip 4.0 and instead keep 4.3 updated, since 
it's used by Debian Stable, released not too long ago.

I have doubts about 2.8 as well. Ubuntu 16.04 ended support last April, 
and for SUSE 14 it's an user contributed package, so not officially 
supported by the distro.

> 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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