[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 10:34:12AM -0300, James Almer wrote:
> On 10/7/2021 10:29 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 7 Oct 2021, at 15:23, James Almer wrote:
> > > On 10/7/2021 10:07 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > > > 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)
> > > 
> > > Ubuntu ended support for 16.04 last April. And is the ffmpeg RHEL7
> > 
> > Still, but this is quite big. And not even 5y old for Ubuntu...
> > 
> > But I would agree with dropping 2.8, yes.
> > 
> > > > 3.2 (Debian Stretch)
> > > > 3.4 (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
> > > > 4.1 (Debian Buster)
> > > 
> > > This is Old-Stable. Current Stable (Bullseye) uses 4.3, which also needs
> > > to be supported.
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > > Agree with dropping these two, as i pointed in other replies.
> > 
> > So your list to maintain would be?
> 
> 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, and 4.4

4.2 is in ubuntu 20.04LTS


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