This is somewhat offtopic for the release. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Philip Herron <philip.her...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Debian 5 wouldn't build because needing libserf >= 0.3.0 i could try and > remove libserf from the build but tempted to see this as a push to stop > support for debian 5. Since i bet later releases of 1.7 will want this also.
For newer releases I think we've bumped the required version of libserf even more than that. The older versions have known bugs. So if it's a choice of building your own libserf or using whatever comes with the OS, you're probably better off building your own. As philipm already pointed out Serf doesn't build unless you specifically ask for it with 1.6/1.7. I changed that a while back in trunk, so that won't be an issue for 1.8 where Serf is the only HTTP library we support.
