From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50281F5AE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230327AbhGUWQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:16:05 -0400 Received: from injection.crustytoothpaste.net ([192.241.140.119]:40260 "EHLO injection.crustytoothpaste.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230324AbhGUWQE (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:16:04 -0400 Received: from camp.crustytoothpaste.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:b056:101:a6ae:7d13:8741:9028]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by injection.crustytoothpaste.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1354E6044E; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:56:10 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=crustytoothpaste.net; s=default; t=1626908170; bh=rOYIUesdLWcDKbIHoe2kPh6Zn2m8IcwZXbKSZYKI6T8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Content-Type: Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:From:Reply-To:Subject:Date:To:CC: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:Content-Disposition; b=vpyhN1ZnB9HYrQ8fK19609B0HOOaqtyrHh5QrZY9jm1wEXjV9LIiP15AUs/AVjSnR yo2pWwsi56NJK162+FEsfn30PeX9kY/6DZrMIfSdTQQZm5XapquCPLDZ8h+Td5MOTm F4D9EEI1ooc8SsbrSvd6Ujl5nn1eRdYfYrK8hT0uEl5PKiZOdF+dK3VeZyYXT9YAqq lI2+5ThAMzKsPPoDpRYR6VvVzWs6Eduu37GXXxyPu3+Ua9p4uKm+GMqBEETmr9bmyA Tyh7RCuzDpbGd1e/6xk3UXRSIqR/L+WcW2pKcChFDHEoCWKqyg9qcdh29xwgmB18Vs +lmLqPb3F3O5YI6v3X1mwXljOA0UmFn5RMkWrPtmzhwOnWMJKtT1TSHCiJ+JKki2G/ sSLa2vEKpj8XU90LiflcgIWhzJjI93QV6hx1mFmdq8fKmlghOseDx27gktk44DueZG 97kMQNgn4jJ4pXdNnjJpRHG6bAetHRl1uTVJTX4Zfee2q5rOCdS Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:56:06 +0000 From: "brian m. carlson" To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Tom G . Christensen" , Mischa POSLAWSKY , Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop support for ancient curl Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: "brian m. carlson" , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Jeff King , Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin , "Tom G . Christensen" , Mischa POSLAWSKY , Johannes Schindelin References: <20170809120024.7phdjzjv54uv5dpz@sigill.intra.peff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LySiYGc5XRCc50J+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.5 (2021-01-21) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --LySiYGc5XRCc50J+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2021-07-21 at 22:22:11, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 Bjarmason wrote: > This series simplifies the http code by dropping support for curl > versions older than 7.19.4, released in March 2009. >=20 > This was last discussed on-list in 2017: > http://lore.kernel.org/git/20170809120024.7phdjzjv54uv5dpz@sigill.intra.p= eff.net >=20 > My reading of why it didn't get integrated at the time was: >=20 > - 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. >=20 > - While in 2017 these versions were already ancient, RHEL 5 (released > in 2007) was still seeing some notable production use. >=20 > 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. >=20 > - 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. --=20 brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA --LySiYGc5XRCc50J+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.3.1 (GNU/Linux) iHUEABYKAB0WIQQILOaKnbxl+4PRw5F8DEliiIeigQUCYPimBQAKCRB8DEliiIei gduDAQD4n/5yRRm9Z7WKmOBTRMANGm8YbT9Uz3HSR327np9nIgD+OYi8/NQElLXG bgIn41TtV6xOETUGo6+eeFwP17tj0gM= =pUss -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LySiYGc5XRCc50J+--