Hi, On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:14:33AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 31/05/17 09:02, Gert Doering wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 02:31:40AM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> If we really do care for supporting 0.9.8, in release/2.4 - I can give > >> this an ACK. Otherwise, I think it might be better to backport > >> 039a89c331e9b7998d804 + 79ea67f77ca3afe91222f. > > > > You are the one that objects most violently if we break users' expectations > > Yes and no. In regards to end users, I am very careful. In regards to > package maintainers, I am less weary as they won't distribute failing > builds to end users. This change hits package building, not the end user.
Well, this is a somewhat simplistic world view, with "package builders"
and "package installers".
People are stuck on older enterprise distributions, for whatever reasons,
but want a newer openvpn version - so they get the source bundle, and
compile. Which is a perfectly fine deployment model - and we should not
break things in 2.4.3 that worked just fine in 2.4.2 for them (unless
there is a strong reason, like "we have a vulnerability here that we
cannot fix unless we abandon an older API").
gert
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