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

[Hendrik Leppkes]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 3:19 PM 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
>

Then they can use security updates from old release branches. The
assumption that people will run Git ffmpeg but distribution provided
x264 seems flawed. They can update dependencies that are important for
them.
The distribution itself is certainly never going to update.

- Hendrik