[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 10:23:44AM -0300, 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 package
> official, or is it one of the Distros that shipped libav and users provided
> custom ffmpeg packages for them (Like SUSE)?

ubuntu still has some extended support for 16.04
https://ubuntu.com/security/esm
iam not sure that would cover ffmpeg though

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