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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 06:55:58PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote:
> 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.

one of my boxes is such a "obscene" 18.04 box. I do want to upgrade it since a long
time.

Upgrading it isnt hard, it will just break scripts and tests.
so not upgarding was the path of least resistance. But at some
point i need to upgrade it

thx

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