On 08/29/2015 08:10 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
On Aug 29, 2015 1:49 PM, "Jeff Trawick" <traw...@gmail.com
<mailto:traw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 08/28/2015 04:17 PM, Tim Bannister wrote:
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>> Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com <mailto:traw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> As of now there's still a veto on my suggestion of enabling
stapling by
>>> default in the httpd trunk config.
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>> Would that default need to be backported to 2.4.x?
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> "need"? No; 2.4.x is a separate consideration.
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>> If it can be on by default for trunk/2.5.x, and off by default in
earlier releases, this should surprise very few users.
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>> People upgrading from an older release could get a mild surprise,
but at the same time if you upgrade from 2.4.x to 2.5.x then surprises
aren't all that surprising.
>>
>> Overall I think the big question mark is around backport to 2.4.x
rather than the change to httpd trunk.
I thought this question was largely resolved, that we wouldn't want
subversion updates to break a users config unexpectedly. POLS.
You know this, but just for completeness:
Subversion-update-breaks-users-config is when compiled-in default
behavior changes, which could affect configurations with no stapling
directive, which wasn't proposed even for trunk.