[FFmpeg-devel] 5.0 release

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 05:28:24PM +0100, Lynne wrote:
> 2 Jan 2022, 16:52 by zane at zanevaniperen.com:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 3/1/22 01:09, James Almer wrote:
> >
> >>>> Reverting something in the release branch is already going to be dirty
> >>>> no matter what, because we do a minor bump to ensure the release has its
> >>>> own soname. Right now that'd mean 5.0 will be lavf 59.13, while lacking
> >>>> a demuxer available in lavf 59.12
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Depends on what you mean by "lacking a demuxer"... One (hacky) option would
> >>> be to replace it with a stub implementation that always fails.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Or tag it as experimental.
> >>
> >
> > That's much better. If we're not willing to wait, then I suggest we do this.
> >
> 
> I'd rather have it reverted in master, branch 5.0, and add it back and bump minor
> again. I'm not willing to wait for a month to get fuzzing, the release is way
> overdue as-is. We generally don't put experimental on decoders or demuxers.

I think if we dont want it in the release either as you suggest
revert in master or mark as experimental in master before the branch

having special cases in the release branch feels a bit iffy

thx

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