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It would be nice if FFmpeg could also specify a clear support policy for the LTS release. As of now, LTS releases are marked, but what does Long Term Support really mean is (afaik) left unspecified. Having a clear policy like (2 LTS are supported at a given time, and every ODD.1 release is LTS) would be helpful.

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I documented that a bit that, in the past: every ODD.1 release is LTS.

And the LTS is maintained at least as long as the next LTS is, and should be at least 3 years.

So, for example, we support 5.1 and 7.1 as LTS. And we support 6.1 and 4.4 as best effort.

I could find some discussion references on the mailing list, but nothing on the main website/wiki. Would be great if this could get documented on the website. (I'm filing a PR for endoflife.date/ffmpeg)

I will have a look.

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