Re: Cutting support for OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 in 17~?

> On 3 Apr 2024, at 19:38, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> The RHEL7-alikes are the biggest set, but that's already discussed
>> above. Looks like SUSE 12 goes EOL later this year (October 2024), and
>> it ships OpenSSL 1.1.1 as an option. Already-dead distros are Ubuntu
>> 16.04 (April 2021), Photon 2 (January 2023), and Photon 3 (March
>> 2024). That leaves AL2, OpenIndiana Hipster, and Solaris 11.4, all of
>> which appear to have newer versions of OpenSSL shipped and selectable.
>
> The discussion we had last year concluded that we were OK with
> dropping 1.0.1 support when RHEL6 goes out of extended support
> (June 2024 per this thread, I didn't check it). Seems like we
> should have the same policy for RHEL7. Also, calling Photon 3
> dead because it went EOL three days ago seems over-hasty.
>
> Bottom line for me is that pulling 1.0.1 support now is OK,
> but I think pulling 1.0.2 is premature.

Is Red Hat building and and shipping v17 packages for RHEL7 ELS customers? If
not then it seems mostly academical to tie our dependencies to RHEL ELS unless
I'm missing something.

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Daniel Gustafsson