[FFmpeg-cvslog] [ffmpeg-web] branch master updated. 79e569e remove 0.6, its no longer supported

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Thu Jun 23 13:55:23 CEST 2011


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:50:10AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Thursday 2011-06-23 03:48:53 +0200, ffmpeg-cvslog Mailing List wrote:
> > The branch, master has been updated
> >        via  79e569e7582718ed70f64c0020287b3b3f0dd34f (commit)
> >        via  4101f8e421f4c1539ebf3c510eb40ac48d2f69ef (commit)
> >       from  a00490a5009c1a4e79c48c0c1b46b6b4d936dd5d (commit)
> > 
> > 
> > - Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > commit 79e569e7582718ed70f64c0020287b3b3f0dd34f
> > Author:     Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > AuthorDate: Thu Jun 23 03:40:57 2011 +0200
> > Commit:     Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> > CommitDate: Thu Jun 23 03:41:15 2011 +0200
> > 
> >     remove 0.6, its no longer supported
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/download b/src/download
> > index 10bc053..60b86c1 100644
> > --- a/src/download
> > +++ b/src/download
> > @@ -211,19 +211,3 @@ compatible with the 0.6 ABI and API.
> >  <a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.7.1.tar.gz.asc">PGP signature</a><br />
> >  <a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.7.1.changelog">Changelog</a><br />
> >  </p>
> > -
> > -<a name="release_0.6"></a><h2>
> > -FFmpeg 0.6.3 "Works with HTML5"</h2>
> > -
> > -<p>
> > -0.6.3 appeared on 2011-04-26. It is the latest point release from the
> > -0.6 release branch, which was cut on 2010-05-04.
> > -</p>
> > -
> > -<p>
> > -<a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.bz2">Download bzip2 tarball</a>  
> > -<a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.bz2.asc">PGP signature</a><br />
> > -<a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.gz">Download gzip tarball</a>  
> > -<a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.tar.gz.asc">PGP signature</a><br />
> > -<a href="releases/ffmpeg-0.6.3.changelog">Changelog</a><br />
> > -</p>
> 
> I don't think we should remove references to the old releases. In case
> they are unsupported/deprecated we should just annotate them, but
> still makes possible to access the tarball for users which need them.

Iam not sure if we should link to releases that arent maintained and
that dont receive security fixes anymore.


> 
> And maybe we should strive to support this particular release a bit
> more, considering that most Linux distros are still stucked with it.

I cannot maintain master and 3 past releases.
If you want to maintain/support one or more of them that is very
welcome
(this mainly requires making sure all security relevant fixes reach it
 quickly)

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