[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Lynne]

2 Jan 2022, 16:52 by zane at zanevaniperen.com:

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> On 3/1/22 01:09, James Almer wrote:
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>>>> Reverting something in the release branch is already going to be dirty
>>>> no matter what, because we do a minor bump to ensure the release has its
>>>> own soname. Right now that'd mean 5.0 will be lavf 59.13, while lacking
>>>> a demuxer available in lavf 59.12
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>>> Depends on what you mean by "lacking a demuxer"... One (hacky) option would
>>> be to replace it with a stub implementation that always fails.
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>> Or tag it as experimental.
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> That's much better. If we're not willing to wait, then I suggest we do this.
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I'd rather have it reverted in master, branch 5.0, and add it back and bump minor
again. I'm not willing to wait for a month to get fuzzing, the release is way
overdue as-is. We generally don't put experimental on decoders or demuxers.


>> Also, unless ossfuzz compiles with libxml2 enabled, we're not going to see any kind of fuzzing for imf from it.
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> I just checked - it doesn't. I'm adding it and will send a PR.
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