Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop support for ancient curl

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

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On 2021-07-21 at 22:22:11, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> This series simplifies the http code by dropping support for curl
> versions older than 7.19.4, released in March 2009.
> 
> This was last discussed on-list in 2017:
> http://lore.kernel.org/git/20170809120024.7phdjzjv54uv5dpz@sigill.intra.peff.net
> 
> My reading of why it didn't get integrated at the time was:
> 
>  - The original commit messages are opinionated about git not working
>    on these versions anyway, as noted in the original thread that's
>    only true of vanilla curl, but anyone impacted by these issues at
>    the time was probably using e.g. RHEL, which had backports that
>    confused the issue.
> 
>  - While in 2017 these versions were already ancient, RHEL 5 (released
>    in 2007) was still seeing some notable production use.
> 
>    It finally got "we really mean it now" EOL'd in late 2020 when
>    extended life-cycle support ended (see
>    https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata). RHEL 6
>    does not have a libcurl affected by these changes.
> 
>  - It ended with a patch to "error on too-old curl", i.e. to make
>    compiling on versions older than 7.19.4 an error. I've ejected that
>    per the discussion about backports confusing that issue.

I'm in favor of this series.  I'm actually in favor of dropping support
for RHEL 6 as well, since there is nobody providing public security
support for it, and therefore nobody but people paying Red Hat (that is,
not this project) can be expected to safely run it.  I also think ten
years is about the reasonable maximum lifetime of software.

So, with or without those changes, this seems like a good approach to
me.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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