I agree, it would suck if ffmpeg dropped support for niche codec altogether. But that's orthogonal to whether or not the bug reports should be made public. And

I agree, it would suck if ffmpeg dropped support for niche codec altogether. But that's orthogonal to whether or not the bug reports should be made public. And realistically the only way distros (or anyone) can know if they should or need to disable some formats by default is if the issues with those formats are public knowledge so people can make informed decisions. Otherwise you're just arbitrarily picking some formats to enable and some not to based on age or some other less useful criteria.