From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:42:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] Update versions of libcurl and Perl
Message-ID: <xmqqa5fah9pr.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20241011074022.GC18010@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> The libcurl changes all looked OK to me. I was a little surprised that
> we could move to 7.61.0, which is only 6 years old, since many long-term
> releases target 10 years. I guess the ones you looked at have had point
> releases with updated libcurl?

Likewise for me, as 10 years was the random number floated around,
if I remember correctly, back when we discussed the platform support
policy.

> But 5.008 is so absurdly
> old that I find it hard to believe anybody would ever notice the
> difference.

Anybody who find that the update from 5.008 should be to 5.10, like
I initially did, should feel absurdly old themselves ;-)