[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello,

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, at 11:35, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> I do plan to make releases from 
> 4.4, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.4, 3.2, 2.8 branches
> why ?

I think this is too many to maintain.

I would argue you should only support:
2.8, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1 and 4.4

2.8 (Ubuntu LTS 16.04 + RHEL7)
3.2 (Debian Stretch)
3.4 (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
4.1 (Debian Buster)
4.4 (master)

Because:
- 4.0 is only OpenMandriva, and even the link says 4.4
- 4.2 is only used by Fedora 32, that is EOL

I would also discuss with Debian, to see if Stretch can be updated to 3.4, but that's a different topic.

jb


> 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)
> 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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