[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[James Almer]

On 10/7/2021 11:32 AM, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 10:23:44AM -0300, 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)
>>
>> Ubuntu ended support for 16.04 last April. And is the ffmpeg RHEL7 package
>> official, or is it one of the Distros that shipped libav and users provided
>> custom ffmpeg packages for them (Like SUSE)?
> 
> ubuntu still has some extended support for 16.04
> https://ubuntu.com/security/esm
> iam not sure that would cover ffmpeg though

Up to you. Maybe only focus on CVEs (if any) and don't bother 
backporting all kinds of fuzzing issues that will probably have 
conflicts when cherry picking. The 2.8 codebase is way too old by now.

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