Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] crypto: bump min nettle to 3.4, dropping RHEL-7 support

[Willian Rampazzo]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 9:04 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It has been over two years since RHEL-8 was released, and thus per the
> platform build policy, we no longer need to support RHEL-7 as a build
> target. This lets us increment the minimum required nettle version and
> drop a lot of backwards compatibility code for 2.x series of nettle.
>
> Per repology, current shipping versions are:
>
>              RHEL-8: 3.4.1
>       Debian Buster: 3.4.1
>  openSUSE Leap 15.2: 3.4.1
>    Ubuntu LTS 18.04: 3.4
>    Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 3.5.1
>             FreeBSD: 3.7.2
>           Fedora 33: 3.5.1
>           Fedora 34: 3.7.2
>             OpenBSD: 3.7.2
>      macOS HomeBrew: 3.7.2
>
> Ubuntu LTS 18.04 has the oldest version and so 3.4 is the new minimum.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.yml             | 10 ----------
>  configure                  |  4 +---
>  crypto/cipher-nettle.c.inc | 31 -------------------------------
>  crypto/hash-nettle.c       |  4 ----
>  crypto/hmac-nettle.c       |  4 ----
>  5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 52 deletions(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>