Hi,

On 11-04-17 23:56, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 11/04/17 23:20, Steffan Karger wrote:
>> On 11-04-17 19:31, David Sommerseth wrote:
>>> As RHEL 5 has reached EOL, we no longer need to support OpenSSL v0.9.8.
>>> This also makes it possible to remove a few workaronds which was
>>> needed earlier, as well as some left overs from v0.9.6.
>>>
>>> This also makes ./configure really stop running unless a new enough
>>> OpenSSL library is found.
>>>
>>> Compile tested on RHEL7.3 and RHEL6.7 (mock chroot build), both shipping
>>> openssl-1.0.1e.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Sommerseth <dav...@openvpn.net>
>>> ---
>>>  configure.ac                                                  |  6 +++---
>>>  doc/openvpn.8                                                 |  1 -
>>>  .../keying-material-exporter-demo/keyingmaterialexporter.c    |  3 +--
>>>  sample/sample-plugins/log/log_v3.c                            |  3 +--
>>>  src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.c                                     |  3 ---
>>>  src/openvpn/ssl_openssl.h                                     | 11 
>>> -----------
>>>  src/openvpn/ssl_verify_openssl.c                              |  6 ++----
>>>  7 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>>>
> [...snip...]
>>
>> For master: ACK.
>>
>> For release/2.4: I wonder whether we need to keep 0.9.8 support, as
>> SLES11 still ships with 0.9.8h, and has general support until 31 Mar 2019.
> 
> While it is James who insisted on RHEL being the oldest supported distro
> many years ago, I have no issues with keeping SLES *or* RHEL as the
> oldest supported distro, in regards to package dependencies.
> 
> Do we know if we have a large group of SLES 11 users?  Initially I
> thought it was related to OpenVPN-NL ... until I recalled that
> OPenVPN-NL should be built against mbed TLS :)

Well, I don't care much for legacy support (and for OpenVPN-NL, I don't
care at all, indeed).  I consider you to be our authority on what Linux
platforms we want to support.  Just wanted to point this out so you
could decide on what to do for 2.4.  I'm fine with whatever you decide here.

-Steffan

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