[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[James Almer]

On 10/7/2021 9:58 AM, James Almer wrote:
> On 10/6/2021 6:35 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I do plan to make releases from
>> 4.4, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.4, 3.2, 2.8 branches
>> why ?
>> they are used by maintained distributions as listed on
>> https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Downstreams
>> (hint, please keep this page updated so release work is targeted to 
>> where its
>>   most usefull)
> 
> I just updated it. You can skip 4.0 and instead keep 4.3 updated, since 
> it's used by Debian Stable, released not too long ago.

You can also skip 4.2 after this last point release you're about to make.

> 
> I have doubts about 2.8 as well. Ubuntu 16.04 ended support last April, 
> and for SUSE 14 it's an user contributed package, so not officially 
> supported by the distro.
> 
>> why 4.1 again ? because debian security people asked about the newly
>> accumulating fixes in the branch and the next release and IMHO it 
>> makes sense
>>
>> thx
>>
>>
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