[FFmpeg-devel] point releases

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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)
>
> Ubuntu ended support for 16.04 last April. And is the ffmpeg RHEL7 

Still, but this is quite big. And not even 5y old for Ubuntu...

But I would agree with dropping 2.8, yes.

>> 3.2 (Debian Stretch)
>> 3.4 (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)
>> 4.1 (Debian Buster)
>
> This is Old-Stable. Current Stable (Bullseye) uses 4.3, which also needs 
> to be supported.

OK.

> Agree with dropping these two, as i pointed in other replies.

So your list to maintain would be?

jb

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