Re: [PATCH 00/13] Update versions of libcurl and Perl

From: Alejandro R. Sedeño <asedeno@mit.edu>
Date: Oct 11, 2024, 13:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20241011132308.2469679-1-asedeno@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20241010235621.738239-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 23:56:08 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

> The libcurl dependency changes come in incremental patches so that if we
> have people on unsupported systems, they can simply revert the patches
> that they'd like to omit.  It also makes the changes easier to review
> than one giant commit.

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> brian m. carlson (13):
>   git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.21.5
>   git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.25.0
>   git-curl-compat: remove check for curl 7.34.0

Strictly speaking, the first three of these in the series can be squashed, as support for libcurl older than 7.37.0 is already broken. Reverting any subset of these patches will not achieve the goal of allowing people to get back to a working build.

Personally, I'd still prefer to see support maintained, but on a more philosophical level, I agree that this patch series a better course of action.

-Alejandro