[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[James Almer]

On 10/7/2021 10:29 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Oct 2021, at 15:23, James Almer wrote:
>> On 10/7/2021 10:07 AM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Wed, 6 Oct 2021, at 11:35, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>>> I do plan to make releases from
>>>> 4.4, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.4, 3.2, 2.8 branches
>>>> why ?
>>>
>>> I think this is too many to maintain.
>>>
>>> I would argue you should only support:
>>> 2.8, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1 and 4.4
>>>
>>> 2.8 (Ubuntu LTS 16.04 + RHEL7)
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>> Ubuntu ended support for 16.04 last April. And is the ffmpeg RHEL7
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> Still, but this is quite big. And not even 5y old for Ubuntu...
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> But I would agree with dropping 2.8, yes.
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>>> 3.2 (Debian Stretch)
>>> 3.4 (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
>>> 4.1 (Debian Buster)
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>> This is Old-Stable. Current Stable (Bullseye) uses 4.3, which also needs
>> to be supported.
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> OK.
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>> Agree with dropping these two, as i pointed in other replies.
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> So your list to maintain would be?

3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 4.3, and 4.4

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> jb
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