[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Lynne]

2 Jan 2022, 18:11 by michael at niedermayer.cc:

> On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 05:28:24PM +0100, Lynne wrote:
>
>> 2 Jan 2022, 16:52 by zane at zanevaniperen.com:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3/1/22 01:09, James Almer wrote:
>> >
>> >>>> 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
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Depends on what you mean by "lacking a demuxer"... One (hacky) option would
>> >>> be to replace it with a stub implementation that always fails.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> Or tag it as experimental.
>> >>
>> >
>> > That's much better. If we're not willing to wait, then I suggest we do this.
>> >
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I think if we dont want it in the release either as you suggest
> revert in master or mark as experimental in master before the branch
>
> having special cases in the release branch feels a bit iffy
>

Okay, I can live with an experimental flag on it for the time being.