On 31/05/17 15:51, Simon Matter wrote: >> 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"). > > I strongly support your view, Gert. I really hope we do not see such > breakage in minor stable releases.
Do you depend on building against OpenSSL 0.9.8? If so, which OS/distribution do you use? -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
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