[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/libx264: bump minimum required version to 160

[Tomas Härdin]

tor 2024-04-11 klockan 18:55 -0400 skrev Sean McGovern:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2024, 19:32 Michael Niedermayer
> <michael at niedermayer.cc>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 03:47:48PM +0200, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:18:52 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <
> > michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 02:53:28PM +0200, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:28:26 +0200 Michael Niedermayer <
> > michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2024 at 07:44:52PM +0200, Niklas Haas
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > From: Niklas Haas <git at haasn.dev>
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This version is four years old, and present in Debian
> > > > > > > oldstable,
> > Ubuntu
> > > > > > > 22.04 and Leap 15.1.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Ubuntu 20.04 has general support till 2025-05-29
> > > > > > Ubuntu 18.04 has security support (ESM) till 2028-04
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'll relax it from 160 back down to version 155 then. That
> > > > > covers
> > Ubuntu
> > > > > 20.04 and Debian oldoldstable.
> > > > 
> > > > 18.04 has 152
> > > > 
> > > > libx264-dev/bionic,now 2:0.152.2854+gite9a5903-2 amd64
> > > > [installed]
> > > > 
> > > > Ubuntu 18.04 still has security support in ESM and ubuntu pro
> > > > IIUC
> > till 2028-04
> > > 
> > > Do you think FFmpeg 7.1 will be back-ported to Ubuntu 18.04 for
> > > security
> > > reasons?
> > 
> > I would not expect that but i also didnt expect 7.0 would be
> > backported
> > to 22.04 and 24.04 and it seems someone did unofficial backports
> > 
> > thx
> > 
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> 
> I think supporting anything earlier than 20.04 is obscene at this
> point.

Some masochists such as myself maintain projects for Ubuntu 18.04 and
also Debian 10 (Buster).

/Tomas