On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:52:08PM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote:
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> Are there any real concerns about the Alpha removal itself?
> People still wanting to use FFmpeg for hardware that old can stick
> with 7.0 (and fork it if they like -- that's the beauty of FOSS).

Loosing security support, sounds not viable, so if alpha is removed
the question what that would do to users (aka performance and does it
work/build after the patchset) is still an open question ...

Also theres the question about how few people would be affected and what
we gain from this?


> It is worth mentioning that even Debian hasn't supported Alpha (along
> with several other architectures) since release 8.0 in June 2018.

I think debian dropped alpha from the officially supported architectures
but it seems there is still some inofficial support:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/12.0/alpha/

thx

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