Sandro Tosi: >> NOTE: the test suite contains certificates that expire in 2018. If that >> causes test failures, then that is an RC bug (as it would mean we would >> be unable to compile mysql-connector-python in stretch before its EOL). >> AFAICT, said problem would also exists in the current version (except >> the expiry reads 2017 instead). >> Please consider replacing the certificates with once that can survive >> stretch + stretch-lts's life-time. > > that's kinda tricky: what is the lifetime for stretch + stretch-lts? > :) should i guess (inferring from previous releases), do you want to > give me a date until making those certs valid, something else? >
(For future cases) I would say 10 years would suffice once the freeze has started. That said, I hope that there will be fewer cases of this problem in general. :) > As of now tests failure wont make the build fail, so --if that's ok > with the RT-- i may continue with keeping those certs as upstream > released them. > Ack, fine with me. Please go ahead with the certs as is. Thanks, ~Niels