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

[Thomas Huth]

On 14/05/2021 14.04, Daniel P. Berrangé 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: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>