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Re: Can the legacy HAVE_LIBGCRYPT_AEAD check be removed?


From: "Dr. Matthias St. Pierre" <Matthias.St.Pierre () ncp-e com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:43:16 +0000


The minimum version being stuck at 1.5.0 is, I believe, almost entirely due to RHEL/CentOS 7 being stuck at 1.5.3
(https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/Development/Support_library_version_tracking#libgcrypt)

It's a widely used enough distribution, still scheduled for 3 more years of support, that I think that for now the 
current approach of supporting it is reasonable. We do warn about it in strong terms.
(The RH package may have some backports of features from later versions, but I haven't looked into it.)

If at some point we want to drop RHEL 7 (and in a similar fashion, SUSE Enterprise Server 12), there's a number of 
packages whose version could be bumped, as seen on that page.

John Thacker


Thanks for your reply, which crossed mine. Well, if it's still widely used by RHEL/CentOS 7, then there is nothing I 
can do about it at the moment.

Matthias

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