Re: Can the legacy HAVE_LIBGCRYPT_AEAD check be removed?

[Joakim <oakimk () gmail com>]

Hi,
yep, RHEL7 is still widely used, sadly :/
I have been correcting this ifdef a couple of times now..
https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/commits/master?search=LIBGCRYPT_AEAD

This since my dev env has not yet seen the light of RHEL8

//Joakim

On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 19:43, Dr. Matthias St. Pierre <
Matthias.St.Pierre () ncp-e com> wrote:

> > 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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