Re: OpenSSL 3.0.0 vs old branches

On 2023-02-06 Mo 11:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> I recently moved crake to a new machine running Fedora 36, which has
>> OpenSSL 3.0.0. This causes the SSL tests to fail on branches earlier
>> than release 13, so I propose to backpatch commit f0d2c65f17 to the
>> release 11 and 12 branches.
> Hmm ... according to that commit message,
>
> Note that the minimum supported OpenSSL version is 1.0.1 as of
> 7b283d0e1d1d79bf1c962d790c94d2a53f3bb38a, so this does not introduce
> any new version requirements.
>
> So presumably, changing this test would break it for OpenSSL 0.9.8,
> which is still nominally supported in those branches. On the other
> hand, this test isn't run by default, so users would likely never
> notice anyway.
>
> On the whole, +1 for doing this (after the release freeze lifts).
>
>

Presumably we don't have any buildfarm animals running with such old
versions of openssl, or they would be failing the same test on release
>= 13.

I'll push this in due course.

cheers

andrew

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